mug

1. 1.

   rob at gunpoint or with the threat of violence

   “I was mugged in the streets of New York last night”

   Broaderhold up

   crime

Other forms of mug

plural

mugs·

past tense or participle

mugged

present participle

mugging

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mug

What does mug mean?

mug means "the quantity that can be held in a mug". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mug?

mug has 1 syllable: mug. In IPA it is /ˈmʌɡ/.

What is another word for mug?

Close synonyms include mugful, chump, fool, gull, mark. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mug a common word?

mug is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.