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mug
noun- a man, a bloke, a fellow US, 1859
- “There are ten thousand mugs that hat eme and you know it.” — Mickey Spillane, I, The Jury, p. 7, 1947
- We won’t hit anything, and if we do, it’ll be the other mug’s fault, and some poor bastard’s tough titty. — James T. Farrell, Saturday Night, p. 25, 1947
- What do these muggs mean to me? I don’t worry about them[.] — Horace McCoy, Kiss Tomorrow Good-bye, p. 265, 1948
- “Is there anything you mugs don’t understand about what Doc here said?” — Donald Wilson, My Six Convicts, p. 62, 1951
- At the moment he disapproved thoroughly of himself, not for playing a mugg’s game with Boo, or with Nineteen Meyers either, but for letting himself wallow so long in the slough of self-pity. — Max Shulman, Anyone Got a Match?, p. 14, 1964
- [T]he door is opened by another mug called Tony Crawford[.] — Ted Lewis, Jack Carter’s Law, p. 14, 1974
- “Who told you that?” he asked. He sounded concerned. “You did, you mug,” said Skin firmly[.] — Greg Williams, Diamond Geezers, pp. 181–182, 1997
- a gullible fool, an easy dupe UK, 1857
A “mug” is a vessel into which you can pour anything. - I’m damned if I know which of us is the mug in this business, Ella. — Norman Lindsay, The Cousin from Fiji, p. 207, 1945
- Now look, kid, all we want around here is a 60–40 break. Don’t say a word if you catch these mugs stealing; so long as we get sixty cents on the dollar we’ll call it even. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 66, 1946
- “Is there anything you mugs don’t understand about what Doc here said?” — Donald Wilson, My Six Convicts, p. 62, 1951
- [N]o mugs to skin. — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 9, 1956
- [H]e told the locals that he was searching for a tiger that had escaped from a circus, and most of the mugs believed him. — Kylie Tennant, The Honey Flow, p. 101, 1956
- They would make him the laughing stock of the whole nick and make him look a right mug. — Frank Norman, Bang To Rights, p. 60, 1958
- ROSE: I never knew you had the brains. LEONARD: No. I was the mug. — Alexander Baron, A Bit of Happiness [Six Granada Plays], 1959
- Once again, it was like Scooter said: you had to put up a good front, else you’d never get a mug in tow. — Wilda Moxham, The Apprentice, p. 9, 1969
- — Louis S. Leland, A Personal Kiwi-Yankee Dictionary, 1984
- The tycoon was a skilful player and the leader was, in the quaint language of the day, a mug. — Frank Hardy, Hardy’s People, p. 84, 1986
- Do they think we’re mugs or what? — J.J. Connolly, Know Your Enemy [Britpulp], p. 155, 1999
- the face, especially an ugly one UK, 1821
- The last time I saw that kind of a look it was on a district attorney’s mug, and it caused me a lot of inconvenience. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 72, 1946
- [S]he handed me an apron. Very politely, I laid it on the back of a chair. It just wouldn’t go well with my mug. — Mickey Spillane, I, The Jury, p. 51, 1947
- I looked at his confident mug; he was going to be a farmer. — Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, p. 106, 1947
- But when he was wrestlin’ the newspapers printed his mug a few times. — Marvin Wald and Albert Maltz, The Naked City, 1947
- I chopped the mops and shaved the mugs and cuffed the boots of about six hicks before the shop closed. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 19, 1973
- the mouth AUSTRALIA, 1902
- Bill had had quite enough of it too, and bundled Peter, as its audience, out into the passage, with a ferocious injunction to shut his mug about it, or get a hiding. — Norman Lindsay, Halfway to Anywhere, p. 67, 1947
- a member of a criminal gang by virtue of brawn not brains US, 1890
- [T]he door is opened by another mug called Tony Crawford[.] — Ted Lewis, Jack Carter’s Law, p. 14, 1974
- a client of a prostitute AUSTRALIA, 1906
- She get’s five per cent if she introduces you to a mug. — Kevin Mackey, The Cure, p. 88, 1970
- a thug US, 1890
- “Look kid, when you play with mugs you can’t be coy.” — Mickey Spillane, The Big Kill, p. 68, 1951
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