Meaning

2 senses

  1. (UK, slang, transitive)To cheat, swindle, dupe (someone).

  2. (US, slang, transitive)To verbally abuse or insult (someone).

Forms

mugs off, mugging off, mugged off, mugged off
Base formmug off · to mug off
3rd person singularmugs off
Present participlemugging off
Past simplemugged off
Past participlemugged off

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theymug off
he, she, itmugs off

Past simpleLesson

all personsmugged off

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave mugged off
he, she, ithas mugged off

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill mug off

Phrasal verbs

2 phrasal verbs

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
mufflermugA2muggermuggymugwortmukbang

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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