Definitions for mug

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mug mug

Spelling: [muhg]

IPA: /mʌg/

Mug is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 13 anagrams from letters in mug (gmu).

Definitions for mug

noun

1. a drinking cup, usually cylindrical in shape, having a handle, and often of a heavy substance, as earthenware.
2. the quantity it holds.
3. Slang. the face. the mouth. an exaggerated facial expression; grimace, as in acting. a thug, ruffian, or other criminal.
4. British Slang. a gullible person; dupe; fool.

verb (used with object)

1. to assault or menace, especially with the intention of robbery.
2. Slang. to photograph (a person), especially in compliance with an official or legal requirement.

verb (used without object)

1. Slang. to grimace; exaggerate a facial expression, as in acting.

Origin of mug

1560-70; probably Scandinavian; compare Swedish mugg, Norwegian, Danish mugge drinking cup; sense “face” apparently transferred from cups adorned with grotesque faces; sense “to assault” from

Examples for mug

You know, he dug up 32-year-old mug shots of me that I had never even seen before, that had never been posted.

I don't care a hang; but there will be some fun when he shows his mug to-morrow.

Beside the mug shot of McCollum was one of a man named Wayne Laws.

The mug shots were stuck on the card, arrest details and such inserted.

A mug of mulled claret for a nightcap, and a good sleep, will set you all right.

To this day, Bush media maven Roger Ailes adamantly denies that he or the campaign had any role in the Willie Horton mug shot ad.

Here, Cyrus, you reach me down your mug—ain't them your shavin' things up there?

I suppose it was that picture with the mug and the clay pipe.

He plants himself on an outdoor couch, stirs Nesquik into a mug, and leans forward.

When he turned himself in, he wore a smirk in his mug shot, and then he went out for ice cream with reporters in tow.