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Mugger vs Delinquent - What's the difference?

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Mugger is a related term of delinquent.


As a noun mugger

is a street robber or mugger can be a large crocodile crocodilus palustris of southwest asia, having a very broad wrinkled snout.

As a verb delinquent is

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mugger

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • A street robber.
  • A person who makes exaggerated faces, as a performance; a gurner.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A large crocodile Crocodilus palustris of southwest Asia, having a very broad wrinkled snout.
  • delinquent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation, like a mortgage or loan.
  • Fred is delinquent in making his car payment.
    The company made a new effort to collect delinquent payments.
  • Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense
  • Synonyms

    * (late or failing to pay a debt) defaulting

    Derived terms

    * delinquency * juvenile delinquent * moral delinquent

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who disobeys or breaks rules or laws.
  • (obsolete) a term applied to royalists by their opponents in the English Civil War 1642 - 1645. Charles I was known as the chief delinquent.
  • Synonyms

    * See also