| 释义 |
mug
verb- to rob with violence or the threat of violence UK, 1864
- He told how he and his brother, Calvin, 17, and Vallejo Caldwell, 16, “mugged” Farley and robbed him of twenty dollars — Louise Meriwether, Daddy Was a Number Runner, p. 126, 1970
- You was drinking, you ended up in the Village, you was mugged, had your wallet taken, you put up a fight and got shot, got it? — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 91, 1975
- to stare at US
- — Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 5 March 2001
- to grimace theatrically, especially while posing for a photograph UK, 1762
- Bruce, shown here with his attorney, stops and mugs for the cameraman and promises to stire a little commotion at tomorrow’s hearing. — Lenny Bruce, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People, p. 160, 1965
- Leslie West thumped guitar [...] with broad, joyously agonized mugging, grimacing and grinning and nodding[.] — Lester Bangs, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, p. 35, 1970
- to kiss US
- — Marcus Hanna Boulware, Jive and Slang of Students in Negro Colleges, 1947
- — American Speech, p. 62, Spring-Summer 1975: “Razorback slang”
- to photograph a prisoner during the after-arrest process US, 1899
- We brought him up to the marshsal’s office and mugged him and printed him and then we brought him here. — George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Doyle, p. 135, 1971
▶ mug off
to show someone as a fool; to play someone for a fool; to consider someone foolish; to humiliate someone UK
From MUG[Y]ou’re mugging me off. That’s what you’re doing. You’re vexing me. — Greg Williams, Diamond Geezers, p. 9, 1997 You may laugh, mock or completely mug me off, and deservedly so[.] — Wayne Anthony, Spanish Highs, p. xi, 1999 I really cocked it up and proper mugged myself off. — Dave Courtney, Raving Lunacy, p. 102, 2000 [This lot have really tried to mug me off. — Garry Bushell, The Face, p. 92, 2001 |