muggers

Although filming has been a lucrative sideline for Southwark council, the residents' associations of the estates — currently undergoing demolition — have rebelled, even despite the recent presence of Brad Pitt, filming sci-fi dystopia movie World War Z in what was once called "muggers' paradise".

Trailer trash 2012

They did tell me that I'd have to get the car towed myself, because they couldn't say it belonged to one of the muggers, which is how they defined them.

Touch of Evil 2006

What kind of muggers select a victim who's got that kind of heat around him?

A Girl's Legs Stirring The Air 2010

If you report that his Supreme Court justice nominee supports warrantless wiretapping, you are apt to be beaten to death by "muggers", as was NY TImes reporter David Rosenbaum last week.

Dare to say NO to Dubya 2006

The guide and camera man were quickly ejected, and the gunner and two muggers ( "muggers": a New Zealand term, where this form of capturing big game was developed, for the guys who jump out of the hovering aircraft to wrestle the netted animal down and subdue it) quickly loaded up.

grouse Diary Entry grouse 2004

Ranger of the Fifth, and so on down the list, for all the big events, the prefects and the redoubtable Fifth-form "muggers" of Railsford's had set their challenge, and the hearts of the juniors swelled big within them as they crowded round the board to write their names against the lesser contests.

The Master of the Shell Talbot Baines Reed 1872

On the first day the "muggers" knew their task well, and Railsford glowed with hope as he expressed his approbation.

The Master of the Shell Talbot Baines Reed 1872

The Fifth-form "muggers" heard it, and barricaded their doors and put cotton-wool in their ears.

The Master of the Shell Talbot Baines Reed 1872

An innkeeper warned him about the state of the roads, but the sailor was a light-hearted fellow, and paid no heed to the talk about "muggers," or gipsies.

The Romance of the Coast James Runciman 1871

But Mr Osborne's charge that welfare cheats are indistinguishable from "muggers" is the sneer of someone who has never walked home through unsafe streets or felt a blade against his throat.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010