Mugger vs. Robber — What's the Difference?

One who commits a mugging.

(Law) To take property from (a person) illegally by using or threatening to use violence or force; commit robbery upon.

One who makes exaggerated faces, as in performing.

To steal something from (a place, vehicle, or institution, for example)

A large freshwater crocodile (Crocodylus palustris) of South Asia, having a very broad snout.

To steal (money or valuables)

A person who assaults and robs others, especially in a public place.

To deprive unjustly of something belonging to, desired by, or legally due (someone)

A person who makes exaggerated faces, as a performance; a gurner.

To deprive of something injuriously

A large crocodile, Crocodylus palustris, of southwest Asia, having a very broad wrinkled snout.

To engage in or commit robbery.

The common crocodile (Crocodilus palustris) of India, the East Indies, etc. It becomes twelve feet or more long.

A person who robs.

A robber who takes property by threatening or performing violence on the person who is robbed (usually on the street)

An animal who robs.

One who robs; in law, one who feloniously takes goods or money from the person of another by violence or by putting him in fear.

A thief who steals from someone by threatening violence