Mugger

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mugger \Mug"ger\, n. Also Muggar \Mug"gar\, Muggur \Mug"gur\
     [Hind. magar, fr. Skr. makara sea monster.]
     The common crocodile ({Crocodilus palustris}) of India, the
     East Indies, etc. It becomes twelve feet or more long.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]



From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  mugger \mugger\ n.
     A thief who takes property by threatening (or performing)
     violence on the person who is robbed; a person who commits a
     mugging; one who mugs. See {mug}, v. t.
  
     Syn: robber
          [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mugger
       n : a robber who takes property by threatening or performing
           violence on the person who is robbed (usually on the
           street)

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  90 Moby Thesaurus words for "mugger":
     Mafioso, Young Turk, aggressor, assailant, assailer, assaulter,
     attacker, bank robber, beast, beldam, berserk, berserker, bomber,
     bookworm, bruiser, brute, bushranger, demon, devil, dragon,
     failing student, fiend, fire-eater, firebrand, footpad, fury, goon,
     gorilla, greasy grind, grind, gun, gunsel, hardnose, hatchet man,
     hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhound, hellion, highway robber,
     highwayman, hijacker, holdup man, holy terror, hood, hoodlum,
     hooligan, hothead, hotspur, incendiary, invader, killer, mad dog,
     madcap, monster, mug, muscle man, overachiever, plug-ugly, raider,
     rapist, revolutionary, road agent, robber, rodman, roughneck,
     sandbagger, savage, she-wolf, spitfire, stickup man,
     strong-arm man, swotter, termagant, terror, terrorist, tiger,
     tigress, torpedo, tough, tough guy, train robber, trigger man,
     ugly customer, underachiever, violent, virago, vixen, wild beast,
     witch, wolf