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It is most often used to refer to a photograph taken by police of a suspect or criminal, usually after they have been arrested. Example sentence: The police released a mugshot of the suspect after he was arrested.
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mugshot
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When police tried to take a mugshot of him, he protested.
Three decades on and a new picture of Sharbat Gula, this time a cheap mugshot of a middle-aged woman, has come to symbolise the hostility many Pakistanis feel towards people they believe have outstayed their welcome.
The jury was told that they went on to hatch a plan nicknamed "The Project" to smuggle in a camera to take pictures and videos of the Moors Murderer – which would have been the first since his mugshot was released in 1966.
Wadsworth tells me of a prospective client whose highest-ranking image was his prison mugshot.
Attractive females were less likely to be offered an interview if they included a mugshot.
Upload a mugshot into an SUGV, a briefcase-sized robot than runs on caterpillar tracks, and it can identify a man walking in a crowd and follow him.
Unlike previous ones, the e-passports contain biometric data embedded in a radio-frequency identification (RFID) chip, along with the usual mugshot and optical bar-code.Although all new passports conform, more or less, to standards laid down by the International Civil Aviation Organisation, each country implements the requirements somewhat differently.
She holds his identity card up to the camera, showing a grainy black-and-white mugshot of a teenager.
One, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, has a rather different mugshot.
In America it takes only seconds to find out about a sex offender: some states have a "click to print" icon on their websites so that concerned citizens can put up posters with the offender's mugshot on trees near his home.
Blowing into a tube on the phone measures the user's level of intoxication, which is then transmitted to headquarters along with a mugshot of the user and details of the phone's location, determined by satellite.
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