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mug shots

mug shots is the plural of mug shot.

Meaning of mug shot

Noun

mug shot (plural mug shots)

  1. A photograph of a person's face, especially one taken by the police during an arrest.
    • All Summer Johnny was Prince of the penny arcade, arms around me on the tilt-a-whirl, mug-shot grins in the quarter photo booth, twanging his guitar for street kids on the hill who scored baggies of hashish and Panama Red.2002, Carolyne Wright, Greatest Hits 1975-2001, page 32

Questions about mug shots

What is mug shots the plural of?
Mug shots is the plural of mug shot.

Words near mug shots in the dictionary

  1. mug books
  2. mug cake
  3. mug cakes
  4. mug off
  5. mug shot
  6. mug shots
  7. mug shotted
  8. mug up
  9. mug's game
  10. mug-hunting
  11. mug-shotted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mug shots (page history and authors); mug shot (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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