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Mug shot

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A photograph of a person's face, especially one taken by the police during an arrest.

    "All Summer Johnny was Prince of the penny arcade, arms around me on the tilt-a-whirl, mug-shot grins in the quarter photo booth, twanging his guitar for street kids on the hill who scored baggies of hashish and Panama Red."

  2. 2
    a photograph of someone's face (especially one made for police records) wordnet

Etymology

From mug (“face”) + shot (“snapshot”). First use appears c. 1899.

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