Dictionary definition: mug

Article: Mugs mugged. (Japanese securities taxes)
The Economist (US);  December 10, 1988 ;     700+ words ... ... indirect tax save liquor, inheritance and stamp taxes). The Securities Dealers Association is also pushing for an exemption from the bourse tax for futures trading. As always in Japan, the small punter gets mugged; the big boys prosper.

Article: Don't be a mug if mugged.(News)
The Birmingham Post (England);  August 10, 2006 ;     380 words ...If you get mugged in Naples, don't fight back. An American tourist was beaten by an angry mob in the streets of the southern Italian city after ...

Article: Mum's pleas for help for son who went on to mug female ...
Express & Echo (Exeter UK);  March 27, 2009 ;     700+ words ...A mother tried to get help for her son's psychiatric problems before he mugged a female student on the city's university campus, Exeter Crown Court has heard. Robert Hall, 33, whose last address in the ...

Dictionary definition: mug(2)
Webster's NewWorld Dictionary;      140 words ...Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 mug(2) (mug) vi. mugged, mug'ging [Brit. Slang] to study hard and hurriedly, as in preparation for an examination; cram: used with up Copyright 1994, 1991, 1988 Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Dictionary definition: mug
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English;      398 words ... ... stupid or gullible person. • v. ( mugged , mug·ging ) inf. 1. [ tr. ] (often be ... x2CC;foŏl / n. ( pl. -fuls ) . mug 2 • v. ( mugged , mug·ging ) [ tr. ] ( mug something up ...

Article: We mugged up when we dropped in:.(The Home Forum)
The Christian Science Monitor;  August 30, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... step in the back door to gab and have a piece of pie. On leaving, it was, "Thanks for the mug-up!" Freeport was a Maine coastal town where we mugged up when we dropped in, a shipbuilding, shoemaking, and fish-shipping village, and if ...

Dictionary definition: mug(1)
Webster's NewWorld Dictionary;      215 words ... ... often ornamented with a human face 2. as much as a mug will hold 3. [Slang] a)the face b)the mouth ... photograph of the face of a criminal or suspect (also mug shot)--vt. mugged, mug'ging 1. to assault usually with intent to rob 2 ...