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noun
Muggins  n.  
1.
A game of dominoes in which the object is to make the sum of the two ends of the line some multiple of five.
2.
A game at cards which depends upon building in suits or matching exposed cards, the object being to get rid of one's cards.


verb
Muggins  v. t.  In certain games, to score against, or take an advantage over (an opponent), as for an error, announcing the act by saying "muggins."





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"Muggins" Quotes from Famous Books



... Mag, Margaret, Marguerite, Muggins. Hum! Half a dozen of them. Wonder if there are any more? Yes, there's Peggoty and Peg, to say nothing of Margaretta, Gretchen, Meta, Margarita, Keta, Madge. My goodness! Is there any end to my nicknames? I mistrust I'm a very commonplace mortal. I wonder if other girls' names can be twisted ...
— Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home • Gabrielle E. Jackson
... all day,' was scrawled on it, 'and the governor is precious angry. I doubt Jack has got into some trouble or other.—Your obedient servant, Joe Muggins.' ...
— Uncle Max • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... is better yet. A medium-sized box left by a transient in payment of default of a board bill should always be opened, if possible, with a hatchet not the property of the plaintiff. Chitty says that. It was so ruled in the case of MUGGINS vs. MUGGINS." ...
— Kilo - Being the Love Story of Eliph' Hewlitt Book Agent • Ellis Parker Butler
... years old. I have a great many dolls—sixteen in all. I have a little baby brother, and I have two canaries, and a cat named Muggins. I did have one named Snow, but one morning all of a sudden he disappeared, and has never ...
— Harper's Young People, September 28, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... before they set out she spent at least an hour putting the finishing touches upon herself in front of a mirror, and seeing that Peter was proper in every detail. When Mr. Nash introduced her personally to the Rev. Zebediah Muggins, and when this apostle of the second advent came out upon the platform and introduced her husband to the crowded working-class audience, Gladys was so a-quiver with delight that it was more a ...
— 100%: The Story of a Patriot • Upton Sinclair


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