mean-mugging
n.— «Oakland is a town where “mean mugging,” the slang expression for looking at someone the wrong way, results in lethal exchanges of gunfire.» —“Decaying park reflects Oakland problems” by John Fall San Francisco Chronicle Aug. 15, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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