What is "mugger"

Usage examples of "mugger".

Next morning, driven to his hotel by Nat Fraser, Frank found not only his suitcases and the personal things that had been stolen from him by the muggers, but a pile of Swiss francs and Moroccan dirhams atop the rickety dresser.

Known as muggers in the past because they made pots and mugs during the winter and sold them in the summer, there were a few caravans left in the country and autumn would find them camped in the meadow behind Divet Hall.

He looked down to see the early afternoon shoppers, muggers, and druggers hurrying to get out of an increasing rain.

She felt almost safe, walking between rows of cars, their alarms unruptured, their headlights blank and serene, gazing passed the spot where she had torched the homeless mugger, seven and a half months earlier.

They shared that blend of boy scout and mugger that characterizes old-timers in the CIA.

There was no pollution, no war, no deafening street music, no drugs, no rapacious physicians and lawyers and impresarios, no muggers, no in-laws, no bills or debts, no automobiles, no newspaper propaganda, no television lies, no politicians, no crowds, no timetables.

Treasury was more of a danger: better to chance the muggers, she decided, and turned down the first side street, working her way toward the beachfront stores.

Jenna had heard many stories from Nicko about the Port lowlife—the smugglers and muggers, the pickpockets and cutpurses, the blaggers and baggers, all waiting to pounce on an unwary stranger as soon as night fell.

On the other hand, the lucky recipient might consider it a wonderful Crackerjack prize-something to keep handy for the next prowler, attacker, mugger, burglar, carjacker, or other urban menace.

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He finished buttoning up the ragged shirt stolen from the mugger the night before, watching the boy by the door.

Black and white people came from nearby bars, from the dim stinking doorways, from the flea-bag hotels, from the cafeterias, the greasy spoons, from the shoe-shine parlors, the poolrooms -- pansies and prostitutes, ordinary bar drinkers and strangers in the area who had stopped for a bit to eat, Johns and squares looking for excitement, muggers and sneak thieves looking for victims.

She's reputed to have shot an unlucky mugger, two looters, a discourteous doorman, and a Lhasa apso with carnal intentions regarding her Pom.

At Chame, through sheer inattention, he shot a Customs roadblock, and at Penonome he became aware of a pair of lynxes riding on his left tail-light - lynxes being young, very slim US-trained policemen in black leather who ride two to a motorcycle, carry submachine-guns and are famous for being polite to tourists and killing muggers, dopers and assassins - but tonight, it seemed, also murderous British spies.

I am amazed that you were able to defeat the muggers when they could see and you could not.