mug shot

  • 1mug shot — n: a police photograph of a suspect s face or profile that is taken when the suspect is booked Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …

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  • 2mug shot — mug shots N COUNT A mug shot is a photograph of someone, especially a photograph of a criminal which has been taken by the police. [INFORMAL] ...mug shots of the five terrorists …

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  • 3mug shot — mug ,shot noun count INFORMAL a photograph of someone s face, taken by the police for their records …

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  • 4mug shot — mug′ shot n. cvb sts a photograph of the face of a criminal suspect …

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  • 5mug shot — n. any of the photographs taken for police records of the face of a person under arrest …

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  • 6Mug shot — For the social networking website, see Mugshot (website). 1931 mug shot of American gangster Al Capone A mug shot, mugshot or booking photograph, is a photographic portrait taken after one is arrested.[1] …

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  • 7mug shot — noun a photograph of someone s face (especially one made for police records) • Syn: ↑mugshot • Hypernyms: ↑photograph, ↑photo, ↑exposure, ↑picture, ↑pic • Member Holonyms: ↑ …

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  • 8mug shot — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms mug shot : singular mug shot plural mug shots informal a photograph of someone s face, taken by the police for their records …

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  • 9mug shot — n. a photograph of one’s face taken for police records. (Underworld.) □ I’m going to have to ask you to come down to the station and go through some mug shots. □ How can a professional photographer take a portrait that looks like a mug shot? …

    Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • 10mug shot — Synonyms and related words: Telephoto, Wirephoto, aerial photograph, black and white photograph, candid photograph, cheesecake, chronophotograph, color photograph, color print, diapositive, heliochrome, heliograph, montage, mug, photo,… …

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