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Etymology

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From mug +‎ -able.

Adjective

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muggable (comparative more muggable, superlative most muggable)

  1. Likely to be mugged; easy to attack.
    • 1980, Mary Glatzle, Evelyn L. Fiore, Muggable Mary, page 15:
      How come I'm so muggable? It sounds like the beginning of a corny love lyric, but maybe if I could figure out the answer it would teach other women how not to be.
    • 2007, Michael Benson, Robert Mladinich, Lethal Embrace:
      As a decoy cop in the Street Crime Unit, Salpeter made himself as muggable as possible by dressing up as, among other things, Hasidic Jews and drunken businessmen.
    • 2012, Jerome H. Blass, The Family Counselor, page 150:
      They asked the muggers which of the 60 people in the films they considered easy mark or most muggable and which ones they would stay away from.