Usually means: Robbery involving threat or violence.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word mugging:

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

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. mugging: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. mugging: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mugging: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mugging (Rote learning), mugging: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mugging, mugging, mugging, mugging, mugging: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See mug as well.)

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noun:  A quick violent robbery of a person, usually in a public place.

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