'Mug' definitions:
Definition of 'mug'
(from WordNet)
noun
The quantity that can be held in a mug [syn: mug, mugful]
noun
A person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of [syn: chump, fool, gull, mark, patsy, fall guy, sucker, soft touch, mug]
noun
The human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British) [syn: countenance, physiognomy, phiz, visage, kisser, smiler, mug]
noun
With handle and usually cylindrical
verb
Rob at gunpoint or with the threat of violence; "I was mugged in the streets of New York last night"
Definition of 'Mug'
From: GCIDE
- Mug \Mug\ (m[u^]g), n. [Cf. Ir. mugam a mug, mucog a cup.]
- 1. A kind of ceramic or metal drinking cup, with a handle, -- usually cylindrical and without a lip. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The face or mouth; as, I don't want to see your ugly mug again; -- often used contemptuously. [Slang] --Thackeray. [1913 Webster +PJC]
Definition of 'mug'
From: GCIDE
- mug \mug\ (m[u^]g), v. t. To take property from (a person) in a public place by threatening or committing violence on the person who is robbed; to rob, especially to rob by use of a weapon such as a knife or gun.
- Note: To rob a person or a business indoors is not usually referred to as to mug, but to stick up or hold up.
- Syn: rob, stick up [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
Synonyms of 'mug'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aerial photograph,
- ambush,
- assail,
- assault,
- attack,
- babe,
- barbarize,
- batter,
- bazoo,
- beaker,
- black-and-white photograph,
- blackjack,
- blitz,
- blockhead,
- boob,
- bowl,
- bruiser,
- brutalize,
- bullyboy,
- burn,
- bushwhack,
- butcher,
- butt,
- byword,
- byword of reproach,
- calotype,
- candid photograph,
- capture on film,
- carry on,
- chalice,
- chaps,
- cheesecake,
- chops,
- chronophotograph,
- chump,
- cinch,
- coffee cup,
- color photograph,
- color print,
- come at,
- come down on,
- commit robbery,
- countenance,
- crack down on,
- credulous person,
- cull,
- declaim,
- derision,
- descend on,
- descend upon,
- destroy,
- dial,
- diapositive,
- dimwit,
- dolt,
- dope,
- dumbbell,
- dupe,
- easy mark,
- easy pickings,
- eggcup,
- embouchure,
- face,
- facies,
- fair game,
- fall guy,
- fall on,
- fall upon,
- favor,
- features,
- figure of fun,
- film,
- fish,
- fool,
- gab,
- game,
- gang up on,
- gazingstock,
- glass,
- go at,
- go for,
- go on,
- goat,
- gob,
- gobe-mouches,
- goblet,
- goon,
- gorilla,
- greener,
- greenhorn,
- greeny,
- grimace,
- gudgeon,
- gull,
- gun,
- gunsel,
- ham,
- ham it up,
- hammer,
- harry,
- hatchet man,
- have at,
- heist,
- heliochrome,
- heliograph,
- hellion,
- highball glass,
- hijack,
- hit,
- hit like lightning,
- hold up,
- holy terror,
- hood,
- hoodlum,
- hooligan,
- horn,
- idiot,
- ignoramus,
- innocent,
- jaw,
- jaws,
- jest,
- jestingstock,
- jigger,
- joke,
- jowls,
- jump,
- kisser,
- knock over,
- land on,
- laughingstock,
- lay at,
- lay hands on,
- lay into,
- lay waste,
- leadpipe cinch,
- light into,
- lineaments,
- lips,
- loot,
- loving cup,
- make a face,
- make a mouth,
- mandibles,
- map,
- mark,
- maul,
- maw,
- maxilla,
- microfilm,
- mockery,
- monkey,
- montage,
- mop,
- mop and mow,
- moue,
- mouth,
- mouthing,
- mow,
- mucker,
- mug shot,
- mugger,
- muscle man,
- mush,
- muzzle,
- noggin,
- numskull,
- oral cavity,
- out-herod Herod,
- overact,
- overdramatize,
- pan,
- patsy,
- phiz,
- photo,
- photobiography,
- photochronograph,
- photograph,
- photomap,
- photomicrograph,
- photomontage,
- photomural,
- Photostat,
- physiognomy,
- picture,
- pigeon,
- pillage,
- pinup,
- pitch into,
- plaything,
- plug-ugly,
- pony,
- portrait,
- pounce upon,
- pound,
- pout,
- premaxilla,
- prize sap,
- pull a face,
- punk,
- pushover,
- puss,
- radiograph,
- rage,
- ramp,
- rampage,
- rant,
- rape,
- rave,
- riot,
- rip off,
- roar,
- rob,
- rodman,
- roentgenograph,
- rough,
- roughneck,
- rowdy,
- ruffian,
- ruin,
- sack,
- sail into,
- sap,
- saphead,
- savage,
- schlemiel,
- schooner,
- schooper,
- set on,
- set upon,
- shell,
- shoot,
- shot,
- shot glass,
- sitting duck,
- slaughter,
- slide,
- snap,
- snapshoot,
- snapshot,
- sow chaos,
- spout,
- stein,
- stick up,
- still,
- still photograph,
- stock,
- stooge,
- storm,
- strike,
- strong-arm man,
- sucker,
- surprise,
- swoop down on,
- take a photograph,
- take the offensive,
- talbotype,
- tankard,
- target,
- tassie,
- teacup,
- tear,
- tear around,
- Telephoto,
- telephotograph,
- terror,
- terrorize,
- throw away,
- thug,
- torpedo,
- tough,
- toy,
- transparency,
- trap,
- trigger man,
- trusting soul,
- tumbler,
- ugly customer,
- underact,
- vandalize,
- victim,
- violate,
- visage,
- wade into,
- wineglass,
- Wirephoto,
- wreck,
- X-ray,
- Xerox,
- yap