mugging (root: mug)

CIDE DICTIONARY

mugging, n. [p. pr. & vb. n. from mug, v.].

 A robbery; a taking of property by threatening (or performing) violence on the person who is robbed. See mug, v.  [PJC]

THESAURUS

mugging

aggravated assault, aggression, amphibious attack, armed assault, armed robbery, asportation, assailing, assailment, assault, assault and robbery, attack, banditry, bank robbery, banzai attack, blitz, blitzkrieg, breakthrough, cattle lifting, cattle stealing, charge, counterattack, counteroffensive, coup de main, crippling attack, dead set at, descent on, diversion, diversionary attack, drive, extortion, flank attack, frontal attack, gas attack, head-on attack, heist, highway robbery, hijacking, holdup, infiltration, lightning attack, lightning war, mass attack, megadeath, offense, offensive, onset, onslaught, overkill, panzer warfare, pocket picking, purse snatching, push, robbery, robbing, run against, run at, rush, sally, shock tactics, sortie, stickup, stickup job, strike, unprovoked assault

ROGET THESAURUS

mugging

Stealing

N stealing, theft, thievery, latrociny, direption, abstraction, appropriation, plagiary, plagiarism, autoplagiarism, latrocinium, spoliation, plunder, pillage, sack, sackage, rapine, brigandage, foray, razzia, rape, depredation, raid, blackmail, piracy, privateering, buccaneering, license to plunder, letters of marque, letters of mark and reprisal, filibustering, filibusterism, burglary, housebreaking, badger game, robbery, highway robbery, hold-up, mugging, peculation, embezzlement, fraud, larceny, petty larceny, grand larceny, shoplifting, thievishness, rapacity, kleptomania, Alsatia, den of Cacus, den of thieves, blackmail, extortion, shakedown, Black Hand, thief, thieving, thievish, light-fingered, furacious, furtive, piratical, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, raptorial, stolen, sic vos non vobis.