Other forms: muggers
A mugger is somebody who robs people in the street by force. Attacked by a mugger.
The offence is robbery rather than theft, since force or the threat of it is used. Fear of a mugger shapes how people move around a city far more than the actual risk does.
1nounmuggerSomebody who robs people in the street by force.
“A mugger took the phone and left the bag on the pavement.”
mugger is a criminal.
Mug plus -er; to mug once meant to strike in the face, from mug as a slang word for the face.
From mug + er.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA