mugging in English

verb
1
attack and rob (someone) in a public place.
he was mugged by three men who stole his bike
2
make faces, especially silly or exaggerated ones, before an audience or a camera.
he mugged for the camera
3
learn or review a subject as much as possible in a short time; cram.
I'm constantly having to mug up things ahead of teaching them

Use "mugging" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "mugging" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "mugging", or refer to the context using the word "mugging" in the English Dictionary.

1. John, you watched a mugging.

2. He has been mugging up Russian.

3. Kids were mugging for the camera.

4. I guess your mugging days are behind you.

5. To criticize him was like mugging Santa Claus.

6. I want to report a mugging, officer.

7. Dudley was the victim of a violent mugging.

8. All the kids were mugging for the camera.

9. Mugging is a real worry for many old people.

10. Preston was a victim of a mugging three months ago.

11. Jeannie can't come. She's busy mugging up on science for her exam.

12. Victims of mugging are typically young men in their early 20s.

13. 21 Crime is on the increase,[www.Sentencedict.com] especially mugging and burglary.

14. He's frantically mugging up on Japanese before his trip to Tokyo.

15. He is mugging up on his chemistry for the final examination.

16. She enrolled in karate to help restore her confidence after the mugging.

17. When the curtain fell the actor was still mugging to the audience.

18. Perhaps touts spend their free time mugging old ladies and fencing stolen cars.

19. At this stage, he said, it seems more likely that an attempted mugging went badly wrong.

20. Dempsey had been booked on suspicion of mugging a 76-year-old woman.

21. Let me start with the case which you mention first, the growth of mugging.

22. Synonyms for Braining include attacking, assaulting, assailing, hitting, hurting, ambushing, beating, mugging, aggressing and battering

23. I would have thought it is very dangerous to get football hooliganism mixed up with mugging.

24. Even if you escape mugging or harassment, you will not escape the depression induced by your environment.

25. There wasn't even much attempt to make it look like a mugging; he still had his wallet.

26. An honest person does not get caught smuggling goods through customs, cheating on taxes or mugging his neighbors.

27. Doctors had been unable to find a pulse as they hurried to their next Medicash-insured mugging victim.

28. After that mugging, the relievers did much better work, especially during the last two games against the Yankees.

29. But Kristen Connolly makes no impression as Cordelia and the great Bill Irwin seems utterly lost as the Fool, Capering about in an ugly yellow costume and desperately mugging and vamping and trying to make sense of it all