The word 'mugged' is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to refer to a person being attacked and robbed, often in a public place. For example: "The old woman was mugged in the dark alley behind her house."
On my first day, a Milanese woman checked out my bag so aggressively I feared I was about to be mugged.
Mr Turner said it was the first time one of their fish had mugged anyone.
Russell Slade said his Cardiff side were "mugged" after Yoni Buyens' late penalty snatched a 2-1 win for Charlton.
The aim is "to protect our workers, protect our environment and open new markets to new goods stamped 'Made in the USA'," he said; without mentioning that cheap imports raise living standards.Barely had he left the podium when Mr Reid mugged him.
As one ages, the likelihood of being mugged increases while the likelihood of being arrested decreases.Frank Lowther Los Angeles* Letter appears online only.
As passengers are robbed by taxi-drivers, householders are shot in their homes by burglars, even the education minister gets mugged, crime now heads the list of public concerns, for the first time since 1983.Inevitably, the politicians are rushing to be seen to be doing something.
Thugs mugged the city's Arab deputy mayor, Suhail Asaad, who was watching the event with a young son.Haifa, hitherto a model of co-existence, no longer looks so exemplary.
It was not the DLC that got mugged, but the party as a whole.
IF, AS the saying goes, "a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged", then perhaps an advocate of stricter campaign-finance laws is a newly-elected congressman or senator who has weathered months of negative ads funded by third-party groups freed from spending limits or disclosure requirements.
The victim's friends claim they were mugged by two dark-skinned kids from the nearby projects, but some witnesses allege the three white men were alone at the scene.
And since most voters dislike being mugged, that matters.Mr Giuliani's record as a tax-cutter is also fairly strong.
