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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as muggar.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • The common crocodile (Crocodilus palustris) of India, the East Indies, etc. It becomes twelve feet or more long.
  • noun A thief who takes property by threatening (or performing) violence on the person who is robbed; a person who commits a mugging; one who mugs. See mug, v. t.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A street robber.
  • noun A person who makes exaggerated faces, as a performance; a gurner.
  • noun A large crocodile Crocodilus palustris of southwest Asia, having a very broad wrinkled snout.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a robber who takes property by threatening or performing violence on the person who is robbed (usually on the street)

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