1mugger1 (ˈmʌɡə
)
Definitions
noun
- informal a person who commits robbery with violence, esp in the street
- mainly US Canadian a person who overacts
2mugger2 or muggar or muggur(ˈmʌɡə)
Definitions
noun
- a large freshwater crocodile, a large freshwater crocodile, Crocodylus niloticus, inhabiting marshes and pools of India and Ceylon Also called
marsh crocodile
Word Origin
C19: from Hindi magarTranslations
- British English:
mugger
A mugger is a person who attacks someone violently in a street in order to steal money from them.If you come face to face with a mugger, what do you do?ˈmʌɡə NOUN If you come face to face with a mugger, what do you do?
- Spanish:
atracador
nm atracadora
- French:
assaillant
nm
- German: Straßenräuber nm Straßenräuberin
- Chinese: 抢劫犯 n
- Arabic: حَرَامِي n
- Portuguese: assaltante n
- Russian: грабитель nm
- Croatian: ulični kriminalac nm
- Czech: lupič nm lupička
- Danish: voldsmand nutr
- Dutch: straatdief nm
- Finnish: pahoinpitelijä n
- Greek: κακοποιός nm
- Italian: rapinatore nm rapinatrice
- Japanese: 強盗 n
- Korean: 노상 강도 n
- Norwegian: raner nm
- Polish: bandyta uliczny nm
- Brazilian Portuguese: assaltante n
- European Spanish:
atracador
nm atracadora
- Swedish: rånare nutr
- Thai: คนข่มขู่เพื่อชิงทรัพย์ n
- Turkish: kapkaççı n
- Vietnamese: kẻ cướp n
Usage examples
I found that pretty insulting, that even a mugger didn't like my bag.
, SOMEBODY (2002)If you tell a potential mugger to bugger off, politely, you might be doing him and society a favour.
Spiked (2003)A YOUNG mugger made a big mistake when he picked an 88-year-old man to rob in the German town of Halberstadt recently.
Courier, Sunday Mail (2005)BBC Breakfast News host Jeremy Bowen has a bruised face and cut lip after being beaten up by a mugger early yesterday morning.
Sun, News of the World (2001)The endless moment poised between two worlds, with the mugger holding on to me so intimately, so easily, snapped shut.
, SUNBATHING IN THE RAIN (2002)