muggee

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muggee

(ˈmʌɡiː)

the victim of a mugging

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muggee - a victim of a mugging; "the law seems to give more protection to the mugger than to the muggee"

victim - an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance

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Any gallery visitor was a possible muggee. Rafael Ferrer's installation--a bucket, a rope, a sheltering cloth, evoked a homeless abode, or perhaps it actually was an abode; Barry Le Va's nine cleavers planted in the wall at equal intervals alluded to a minimalist aesthetic but evoked dead chickens and serial killings; Louise Bourgeois's multi-phallic homage, " The Destruction of the Father" nudged us away from our patriarchal past; Suzanne Harris's megalithic dance contraption, "The Wheels," composed of revolving eight-foot wooden gears, provided dance sites for the nimble.

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"It seems to me you might now be the muggee. After all, you're no longer with your friends, you're all alone.

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Both were mugged, or I should say they were part of an attempted mugging both of which found the muggers becoming the muggees.