mugger

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: mug=ger

CIDE DICTIONARY

mugger, n. [Hind. magar, fr. Skr. makara sea monster.].

 The common crocodile (Crocodilus palustris) of India, the East Indies, etc. It becomes twelve feet or more long.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

mugger, n. 

 A thief who takes property by threatening (or performing) violence on the person who is robbed; a person who commits a mugging; one who mugs. See mug, v. t.  [WordNet 1.5]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

mugger, NULL

Etymology

mugger, n. a broad-nosed Indian crocodile, Crocodylus palustris, venerated by many Hindus.

Etymology

Hindi magar

THESAURUS

mugger

Mafioso, Young Turk, aggressor, assailant, assailer, assaulter, attacker, bank robber, beast, beldam, berserk, berserker, bomber, bookworm, bruiser, brute, bushranger, demon, devil, dragon, failing student, fiend, fire-eater, firebrand, footpad, fury, goon, gorilla, greasy grind, grind, gun, gunsel, hardnose, hatchet man, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhound, hellion, highway robber, highwayman, hijacker, holdup man, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, hothead, hotspur, incendiary, invader, killer, mad dog, madcap, monster, mug, muscle man, overachiever, plug-ugly, raider, rapist, revolutionary, road agent, robber, rodman, roughneck, sandbagger, savage, she-wolf, spitfire, stickup man, strong-arm man, swotter, termagant, terror, terrorist, tiger, tigress, torpedo, tough, tough guy, train robber, trigger man, ugly customer, underachiever, violent, virago, vixen, wild beast, witch, wolf

ROGET THESAURUS

mugger

Evil doer

N evil doer, evil worker, wrongdoer, mischief-maker, marplot, oppressor, tyrant, destroyer, Vandal, iconoclast, firebrand, incendiary, fire bug, pyromaniac, anarchist, communist, terrorist, savage, brute, ruffian, barbarian, semibarbarian, caitiff, desperado, Apache, hoodlum, hood, plug-ugly, Red Skin, tough, Mohawk, Mo-hock, Mo-hawk, bludgeon man, bully, rough, hooligan, larrikin, dangerous classes, ugly customer, thief, cockatrice, scorpion, hornet, snake, viper, adder, snake in the grass, serpent, cobra, asp, rattlesnake, anaconda, canker-worm, wire-worm, locust, Colorado beetle, alacran, alligator, caymon, crocodile, mosquito, mugger, octopus, torpedo, bane, cutthroat, cannibal, anthropophagus, anthropophagist, bloodsucker, vampire, ogre, ghoul, gorilla, vulture, gyrfalcon, gerfalcon, wild beast, tiger, hyena, butcher, hangman, blood-hound, hell- hound, sleuth-hound, catamount, cougar, jaguar, puma, hag, hellhag, beldam, Jezebel, monster, fiend, devil incarnate, demon in human shape, Frankenstein's monster, harpy, siren, Furies, Eumenides, Hun, Attila, scourge of the human race, faenum habet in cornu.