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mugger
(encz) | mugger,krokodýl bahenní Martin M. |
mugger
(encz) | mugger,lupič n: Zdeněk Brož |
mugger
(encz) | mugger,zloděj a násilník Martin M. |
Mugger
(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.] |
mugger
(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] |
mugger
(wn) | mugger
n 1: a robber who takes property by threatening or performing
violence on the person who is robbed (usually on the
street) |
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hugger mugger
(encz) | hugger mugger, v: |
hugger-mugger
(encz) | hugger-mugger, n: |
muggers
(encz) | muggers,lupiči n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
Hugger-mugger
(gcide) | Hugger-mugger \Hug"ger-mug`ger\, n. [Scot. huggrie-muggrie;
Prov. E. hugger to lie in ambush, mug mist, muggard sullen.]
1. Privacy; secrecy. Commonly in the phrase in hugger-mugger,
with haste and secrecy. [Archaic]
[1913 Webster]
Many things have been done in hugger-mugger.
--Fuller.
[1913 Webster]
2. Confusion; disorder.
[PJC]Hugger-mugger \Hug"ger-mug`ger\, a.
1. Secret; clandestine; sly.
[1913 Webster]
2. Confused; disorderly; slovenly; mean; as, hugger-mugger
doings.
[1913 Webster] |
Mugger
(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.]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] |
edward james muggeridge
(wn) | Edward James Muggeridge
n 1: United States motion-picture pioneer remembered for his
pictures of running horses taken with a series of still
cameras (born in England) (1830-1904) [syn: Muybridge,
Eadweard Muybridge, Edward James Muggeridge] |
hugger mugger
(wn) | hugger mugger
v 1: act stealthily or secretively |
hugger-mugger
(wn) | hugger-mugger
adv 1: in secrecy; "they did it all hugger-mugger"
adj 1: in utter disorder; "a disorderly pile of clothes" [syn:
disorderly, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger,
jumbled, topsy-turvy]
2: conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods;
"clandestine intelligence operations"; "cloak-and-dagger
activities behind enemy lines"; "hole-and-corner intrigue";
"secret missions"; "a secret agent"; "secret sales of arms";
"surreptitious mobilization of troops"; "an undercover
investigation"; "underground resistance" [syn: clandestine,
cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner(a), hugger-mugger,
hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, undercover,
underground]
n 1: a state of confusion; "he engaged in the hugger-mugger of
international finance" |
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