Meaning & use
mugshots
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Photographs of a person's face, typically front and profile views, taken by police after an arrest for identification purposes.
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The local news ran a gallery of mugshots from the weekend's arrests.
His mugshot from decades earlier resurfaced online and went viral overnight.
A note on using this word
"Mug" has been slang for "face" since at least the 18th century, which is the direct source of this now-standard term.
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