mug shot
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4.1
- noun
- /mʌɡ ʃɑt/
:
foto policial
- After his arrest, the officer took a mug shot for identification purposes.
- take a mug shot
I found his mug shot on Google search.
- I found his mug shot on Google search.
- Picture taken, case number, mug shots, all that.
- They're like they take our cuffs off, they do the mug shot.
- And then Cook County, which is where Chicago is, they put all of their mug shots up online.
- I pulled the mug shot offline of you when you were arrested a couple years ago.
- Canned lighting because overhead lighting makes you look like you're starring in your own personal mug shot.
- And it was all because a white woman had pointed his photo out of a pile of mug shots and said that he had killed her husband.
- This dipshit trying to redo his felony mug shot, he wants to look tough.
- It's actually my my prison mug shot on the camp.
- So I went and I got some the BCI photo that picked, you know, the mug shots.
Examples
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Now, we've run his fingerprints and mug shots through every database we've got, and we've come up with nothing.
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But the reporting did not include Reed's recent mug shots or even any background on his arrests, which may prove relevant.
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I agree that the quality of the mug shot is poor, and the details are not clear.
Blog text (10) -
Jimmy is looking at police mug shots of a lot of young guys.
Fiction book (1991) -
The Homicide team was taking him back to the office to look at mug shots.
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An array of surveillance photos and mug shots is spread over a small table.
Fiction book (1997) -
I need you to look through some mug shots... ...to identify Max's shooter.
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Jack McCullough, of Seattle, is seen in a mug shot taken July 28, 2011.
Blog text (27) -
I don't ordinarily post mug shots, but I thought this one really illustrated a point.
Blog text (11) -
Burnett and Julie are sitting at the computer looking at mug shots dialed in from the police database.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
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4.2
A photograph police take of a person's face after an arrest
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun compound is directly interpretable from 'mug' (informal term for face) + 'shot' (photograph): a photograph of a face. Although 'mug' as 'face' is colloquial, once that sense is known the compound follows a transparent noun+noun pattern and is predictable to learners who know both words.
Etymology
The noun mug shot comes from old slang: mug meant a person's 'face' and shot was a quick photograph. Police began taking these plain photos of a person's face when they were arrested, so mug shot now means 'a police photograph of someone's face'.