Usually means: Cup with handle, holds beverages.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word mug:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. mug: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. mug, mug: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mug, mug: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mug: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mug: Vocabulary.com
  6. Mug, mug: Wordnik
  7. mug: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. mug: Wiktionary
  9. mug: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. mug: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. mug: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. mug: Dictionary.com
  13. mug (n.1), mug (n.2), mug (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. mug: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Mug (disambiguation), Mug (film), Mug: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Mug: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. mug: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. mug: Rhymezone
  19. mug, mug (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. mug: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Mug: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. mug: Free Dictionary
  23. mug: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. mug: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. Mug: The Word Detective
  26. mug: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. mug: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. mug: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MUG: CCI Computer
  2. MUG: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MUG: Acronym Finder
  2. MUG: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. mug: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mug: Archaeology Wordsmith
  2. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. mug, mug, mug, mug, mug, mug: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. mug: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Mug: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

(Note: See mugful as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A large cup for beverages, usually having a handle and used without a saucer.
noun:  (slang, often derogatory) The face.
noun:  (slang, derogatory) A gullible or easily-cheated person.
noun:  (UK, Australia, derogatory, slang) A stupid or contemptible person.
noun:  (slang) A criminal.
noun:  (slang) A mug shot.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete, UK) To strike in the face.
verb:  (transitive) To assault for the purpose of robbery.
verb:  (intransitive) To exaggerate a facial expression for communicative emphasis; to make a face, to pose, as for photographs or in a performance, in an exaggerated or affected manner.
verb:  (transitive) To photograph for identification; to take a mug shot of.
verb:  (UK, Australia, Singapore, slang) To learn or review a subject as much as possible in a short time; cram.
adjective:  (archaic) Easily fooled, gullible.
adjective:  (Bermuda, slang) Uninteresting or unpleasant.
noun:  (slang, African-American Vernacular) Motherfucker (usually in similes, e.g. "like a mug" or "as a mug")

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