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📖 Определения и значения для слова mugging

📒 the crime of attacking somebody violently, or threatening to do so, in order to steal their money, especially in a public place

  • Mugging is on the increase.
  • There have been several muggings here recently.
  • Murders, kidnaps and muggings are reported daily in the newspapers.

📒 learning something by repeating it until you remember it rather than by understanding the meaning of it

  • Some students revise for exams purely by mugging.
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