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mugging
verb
present participle of mug
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1
to distort one's face
- every time their picture was snapped, both children mugged by sticking out their tongues or scrunching up their faces
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2
to take a photograph of
- mugging captured criminals for the police records
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“Mugging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mugging. Accessed 6 Dec. 2021.
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