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Mug isn't to steal. Mug is a slang term for a street robbery. It relates to the robbers view that their victim is a mug, where a mug is person who is gullible, vulnerable or somehow otherwise in no position to defend themselves. So the descriptive term for such a robbery is a mugging.

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