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mug⋅gins

  [muhg-inz]
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–noun
1. a convention in the card game of cribbage in which a player scores points overlooked by an opponent.
2. a game of dominoes, in which any player who can make the sum of two ends of the line equal five or a multiple of five adds the number so made to his or her score.
3. British Slang. a fool.
Origin:
1850–55; prob. special use of proper name; def. 3 by assoc. with mug
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muggins 
"fool, simpleton," 1855, apparently from the surname, perhaps influenced by slang mug "dupe, fool" (see mug (n.2)).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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