Associations to the word «Mugger»

Wiktionary

MUGGER, noun. A street robber.
MUGGER, noun. A person who makes exaggerated faces, as a performance; a gurner.
MUGGER, noun. A large crocodile, Crocodilus palustris, of southwest Asia, having a very broad wrinkled snout.

Dictionary definition

MUGGER, noun. A robber who takes property by threatening or performing violence on the person who is robbed (usually on the street).

Wise words

Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?
Aeschylus