| 单词 | mug book |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmug book mug book n. U.S. (a) a book in which business or professional people publicize themselves and are exhibited in flattering photographs; (b) a book containing photographs of people's faces, esp. in police records. ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > police records police blotter1861 charge-sheet1866 murder book1876 blotter1887 charge-book1890 crime sheet1902 mug book1902 occurrence book1929 rap sheet1949 sheet1958 murder file1967 murder log1972 1902 C. L. Cullen More Ex-tank Tales iv. 85 I'd often seen him in New York, and I'd seen his mush in Byrnes's mug book, too. 1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 78/2 Mug book, a book published for prominent business and professional men who are induced by high pressure solicitors to vividly write about themselves with youthful photographs. They pay well for this blue book privilege. 1938 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 43 918 The specialized occupation most frequently listed in the police mugbook was that of cannery worker. 1947 Pacific Reporter 2nd Ser. 158 342 The next day, at the police station, a woman customer who had witnessed the holdup and murder picked out from the mug book the appellant as one of the bandits. 1958 J. Hawkins & W. Hawkins Death Watch (1959) i. 19 I couldn't find him in the mug books; his picture isn't there. 1994 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 81 321/2 The final product has the feel of a ‘mug book’ that honors all without enough clarifying analysis for the reader. < as lemmas |
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