Meaning

1 senses
  1. A quick violent robbery of a person, usually in a public place.

    There have been three muggings in this street in the past week.

    Raubüberfall, Straßenraub, Überfall

    го́п-сто́пgóp-stóp

More definitions
  • assault with intent to rob

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Many muggings go unreported.

Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
a quick violent robbery of a person, usually in a public place:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a quick violent robbery of a person, usually in a public place:

Forms

plural: muggings
Singularmugging
Pluralmuggings

regular

Word family

2 related words
Relatedmug

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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