Mulename

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  A surname.

mulenoun詞源 1/mjuːl/

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  The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.

  • One day he ran into a herd of a half dozen elk, so he rode his mule down the canyon three or four miles, leaving the sheep alone.
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  The generally sterile hybrid offspring of any two species of animals.

  • It would be exceedingly interesting to know if the hybrid would reproduce, a matter I deem exceedingly doubtful, for the chances are it would prove a "mule" (infertile).
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  archaicA hybrid plant.

  • Vegetable mules supply an irrefragable argument in favour of the sexual system of botany.
  • The most extraordinary mule, however, that is asserted to have been produced on the Continent, is a cross between the cabbage and horse-radish, which Monsieur Sageret reports that he has obtained […]
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  informalA stubborn person.

  • "Where in the hell do you think I learned to be such a mule?”
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  slangA person paid to smuggle drugs.

  • Cocaine packet ingestion (these patients referred to as “mules”) may warrant surgery, Golytely or expectant passage.
  • “Yeah, in Denver, we know about Uriarte's involvement in meth. Our Las Cruces office seized over six hundred pounds of methamphetamine from two of his mules last year.”
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  hobbieslifestylenumismaticsA coin or medal minted with obverse and reverse designs not normally seen on the same piece, either intentionally or in error.

  • What is less clear, however, is why mint workers should have chosen to produce mules, if they were making forgeries […]
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  A MMORPG character, or NPC companion in a tabletop RPG, used mainly to store extra inventory for the owner's primary character.

  • He was in the middle of organizing his massive stash of rare and exquisite bounty, all kept safely in the inventory cache of a mule, an entirely separate character which he paid a monthly fee to maintain exclusively for that purpose.
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  Any of a group of cocktails involving ginger ale or ginger beer, citrus juice, and various liquors.

muleverb詞源 1/mjuːl/

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  slangTo smuggle (illegal drugs).

  • There are many drug lords, each with his own corridor (think of it as a franchise of sorts) funneling narcotics into Texas. There are multifold methods of transport. The old, and still viable, way is to "mule" it across the Rio Grande in a small boat.
  • Thornton was supposed to mule it back to the States from one of the ports he stopped in, give it to Maxwell and Ames, and get the second half of a quarter-million.

mulenoun詞源 2/mjuːl/

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  Any shoe with an upper covering the front of the foot but without a back flap or strap, leaving the heel exposed.

  • The bride was a shocking housekeeper and dragged round all day in boudoir cap, frowsy negligee and mules—slip, slop, slip, slop.
  • Routine dress for Tuesday will be bra and panties with high-heel satin mules.