mean-mugging
n.— «One of the three persons charged in the homicide said he gunned down McKay because “he was mean-mugging me.”» —“Our $6 million bodies are losing value on deadly streets” by Lewis W. Diuguid Kansas City Star (C2) July 13, 1994. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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