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mugs' games

mugs' games is the plural of mug's game.

Meaning of mug's game

Noun

mug's game (plural mugs' games)

  1. (idiomatic) A foolish, profitless, or hopeless undertaking.
    • ‘It's a mug's game,’ said Crabbe.1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 109

Questions about mugs' games

What is mugs' games the plural of?
Mugs' games is the plural of mug's game.

Words near mugs' games in the dictionary

  1. Mugrabi
  2. Mugrabis
  3. mugs
  4. mugs off
  5. mugs up
  6. mugs' games
  7. mugsful
  8. mugshot
  9. mugshots
  10. mugshotted
  11. mugu

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