Mug Shot Definition

noun
Any of the photographs taken for police records of the face of a person under arrest.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • mugshot

Other Word Forms of Mug Shot

Noun

Singular:
mug shot
Plural:
mug-shots

Origin of Mug Shot

  • Compound of mug (“face") + shot (“snapshot"), US. Compare mug (“portrait").

    From Wiktionary

Mug Shot Sentence Examples

  • Instinctively her fingers affirmed her hair was in order for the mug shot.

  • The obvious difference is when the average Joe gets picked up for drunk driving, his mug shot isn't plastered all over TMZ and announced on the CNN crawler.

  • Shortly after she was fingerprinted and had her mug shot taken (she must know the drill by now), Ms. Delgado called Byron to come bail her out of jail…again.

  • Search online for their mug shot and you've got a costume ready to go.

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Words Starting With

MMUMUG

Words Ending With

TOTHOT

Unscrambles

mug shot

Words Starting With M and Ending With T

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Word Length

8 Letter Words8 Letter Words Starting With M8 Letter Words Ending With T