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muling

Syllables: Mu·ling

muling is the present participle and gerund of mule.

Meaning of mule

Verb

mule (third-person singular simple present mules, present participle muling, simple past and past participle muled)

  1. (slang, transitive) To smuggle (illegal drugs).
    • There are many drug lords, each with his own corridor (think of it as a franchise of sorts) funneling narcotics into Texas. There are multifold methods of transport. The old, and still viable, way is to "mule" it across the Rio Grande in a small boat.2000, Arturo Longoria, Keepers of the Wilderness

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Proper noun capitalized: Muling

Muling

  1. A county-level city of Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang, China, formerly a county.
    • Peasants and cadres of the (Szuping) production brigade of the (Pamientung) commune in Muling County started to sow wheat on 11 March with the revolutionary spirit of seizing the day and seizing the hour.1970 March 19 [1970 March 16], “Party Branch Activities”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 54, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Harbin Heilungkiang Provincial...
    • KMJP 7/3/72 carries a case from Mu-ling hsien, Heilungkiang, where peasants invited UYs to New Year’s feasts.[1977, Thomas P. Bernstein, Up to the Mountains and Down to the Villages: The Transfer of Youth from Urban to Rural China, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 321

Origin of muling

From Mandarin 穆稜 /穆棱 (Mùlíng).

Phrases with muling

Questions about muling

What does muling mean?
Muling means a county-level city of Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang, China, formerly a county.
What is muling the present participle and gerund of?
Muling is the present participle and gerund of mule.
What part of speech is muling?
Muling is a proper noun.

Words near muling in the dictionary

  1. muliers
  2. mulierty
  3. mulies
  4. mulinane
  5. mulinanes
  6. muling
  7. mulis
  8. mulish
  9. mulishly
  10. mulishness
  11. mulita

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