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mugshot

mugshot is the alternative form 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

Forms of mugshot

pluralmugshots

Questions about mugshot

What is mugshot the alternative form of?
Mugshot is the alternative form of mug shot.

Words near mugshot in the dictionary

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

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