Mug's Game

  

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Mug's Game

Definition: Mug's Game

Mug's Game

Noun

1. A futile or unprofitable endeavor.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Modern Usage: Mug's Game

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Movie/TV Titles

A Mug's Game (1996)

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Commercial Usage: Mug's Game

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Books

  • A mug's game; intermittent memoirs, 1924-1954 (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Modern Translation: Mug's Game

Language Translations for "mug's game"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

hovadina (balls, tosh). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

pancser játék, nívótlan játék, hülyéknek való szórakozás, hülyéknek való játék. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ug'smay amegay.(various references)

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Anagrams: Mug's Game

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "'-a-e-g-g-m-m-s-u"

-3 letters: gauges, gummas, smegma, summae.

-4 letters: agues, amuse, gages, games, gauge, gaums, gemma, geums, gumma, mages, magus, muggs, sagum, summa, usage.

-5 letters: ages, ague, amus, eggs, emus, gaes, gage, gags, game, gams, gaum, gems, geum, gums, maes, mage, mags, megs, mems, mesa, mugg, mugs, mums, muse, sage, same, seam, smug.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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