Usually means: Robber who attacks in public.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word mugger:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. mugger: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mugger: Merriam-Webster
  3. mugger, mugger: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mugger, mugger: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mugger: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mugger: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mugger, mugger: Wordnik
  8. mugger: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. mugger: Wiktionary
  10. mugger: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. mugger: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. mugger: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Mugger, mugger: Dictionary.com
  14. mugger: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Mugger, The Mugger (novel), The Mugger: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. mugger: Rhymezone
  17. mugger: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. mugger: FreeDictionary.org
  19. mugger: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. mugger: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mugger: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mugger: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mugger, mugger, mugger: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Mugger, mugger: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A person who assaults and robs others, especially in a public place.
noun:  A person who makes exaggerated faces, as a performance; a gurner.
noun:  A large crocodile, Crocodylus palustris, of southwest Asia, having a very broad wrinkled snout.

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