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mug

  [muhg] noun, verb, mugged, mug⋅ging.
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–noun
1. a drinking cup, usually cylindrical in shape, having a handle, and often of a heavy substance, as earthenware.
2. the quantity it holds.
3. Slang.
a. the face.
b. the mouth.
c. an exaggerated facial expression; grimace, as in acting.
d. a thug, ruffian, or other criminal.
4. British Slang. a gullible person; dupe; fool.
–verb (used with object)
5. to assault or menace, esp. with the intention of robbery.
6. Slang. to photograph (a person), esp. in compliance with an official or legal requirement.
–verb (used without object)
7. Slang. to grimace; exaggerate a facial expression, as in acting.
Origin:
1560–70; prob. < Scand; cf. Sw mugg, Norw, Dan mugge drinking cup; sense “face” appar. transferred from cups adorned with grotesque faces; sense “to assault” from earlier pugilistic slang “to strike in the face, fight”
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mug 1   (mŭg)   
n.  

  1. A heavy cylindrical drinking cup usually having a handle.

  2. The amount that such a cup can hold.


[Perhaps of Scandinavian origin.]
mug 2   (mŭg)   
n.  

  1. Informal

    1. The human face.

    2. The area of the human mouth, chin, and jaw.

    3. A grimace.

    4. A mug shot.

  2. A thug; a hoodlum.

  3. Chiefly British Slang A victim or dupe.

v.   mugged, mug·ging, mugs

v.   tr.

  1. Informal To photograph (a person's face) for police files.

  2. To threaten or assault (a person) with the intent to rob: arrested the thief who mugged the tourists.

v.   intr.
To make exaggerated facial expressions, especially for humorous effect: The partygoers mugged for the camera.

[Probably from mug1 (possibly in allusion to mugs decorated with grotesque faces).]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
mug

  1. n.
    the face. (Crude.) : Wipe that smile off your mug!
  2. n.
    a thug; a goon. (Underworld.) : Call off your mugs. I'll come peacefully.
  3. tv.
    to attack and rob someone. : Somebody jumped out of an alley and tried to mug me.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

mug  (n.1)
"drinking vessel," 1570, "bowl, pot, jug," perhaps from Scand. (cf. Swed. mugg "mug, jug," Norw. mugge "pitcher, open can for warm drinks"), or Low Ger. mokke, mukke "mug."

mug  (n.2)
"a person's face," 1708, possibly from mug (n.1), on notion of drinking mugs shaped like grotesque faces. Sense of "portrait or photograph in police records (e.g. mug shot, 1950) had emerged by 1887. Verb sense of "make exaggerated facial expressions" is from 1855, originally theatrical slang.

mug  (v.)
"to beat up," 1818, originally "to strike the face" (in pugilism), from mug (n.2). The general meaning "attack" is first attested 1846, and "attack to rob" is from 1864 (mugger in this sense is from 1865). Perhaps influenced by thieves' slang mug "dupe, fool, sucker" (1851).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Legal Dictionary

Main Entry: mug
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Forms: mugged; mug·ging
: to assault (an individual) usually with intent to rob
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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