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hugger-mugger
noun- chaos US
- — Helen Dahlskog (Editor), A Dictionary of Contemporary and Colloquial Usage, p. 32, 1972
- a prostitute who beats and robs customers or who serves as a decoy for someone who beats and robs the customer US
- There’s lesbians, masochists, hypes, whores, flim flammers, paddy hustlers, hugger muggers, ex-cons of all descriptions, and anybody else with a kink of some kind or other. — Joseph Wambaugh, The New Centurions, p. 174, 1970
- I took away the first stud’s revolver easier than I could disarm a fourteen-year-old hugger-mugger in D.C. — James Patterson, Kiss the Girls, p. 334, 1995
- Hollywood. Home of hipsters, hugger-muggers, and hermaphrodites. — James Ellroy, Destination Morgue, p. 207, 2004
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