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Mugging vs Robbing - What's the difference?

mugging | robbing |

As nouns the difference between mugging and robbing

is that mugging is a quick violent robbery of a person, usually in a public place while robbing is robbery.

As verbs the difference between mugging and robbing

is that mugging is while robbing is .

mugging

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A quick violent robbery of a person, usually in a public place.
    • There have been three muggings in this street in the past week.

    Verb

    (head)

    • robbing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • robbery
  • * 1985 , David-Hillel Ruben, The Metaphysics of the Social World (page 141)
    • Consider the first, allegedly contrastive fact, that there were some bank robbings by Sutton rather than no robbings at all by Sutton.