mug shot

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From mug (“face”) + shot (“snapshot”). First use appears c. 1899.

21 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: shtënë turi — photograph taken during an arrest
• Chinese Mandarin: 臉部照片 /脸部照片 (liǎnbù zhàopiàn) — photograph taken during an arrest
• Finnish: pidätyskuva — photograph taken during an arrest
• French: portrait — photograph taken during an arrest
• French: photographie d'identité judiciaire — photograph taken during an arrest
• German: Polizeifoto — photograph taken during an arrest
• Japanese: マグショット (magushotto) — photograph taken during an arrest
• Korean: 머그샷 (meogeusyat) — photograph taken during an arrest
• Portuguese: foto de fichamento — photograph taken during an arrest
• Portuguese: foto de cadeia — photograph taken during an arrest
• Portuguese: foto fichada — photograph taken during an arrest
• Portuguese: foto policial — photograph taken during an arrest
• Portuguese: retrato policial — photograph taken during an arrest
• Portuguese: foto de criminoso — photograph taken during an arrest
• Russian: фото в профиль и анфас (foto v profilʹ i anfas) — photograph taken during an arrest
• Spanish: ficha policial — photograph taken during an arrest
• Spanish: fotografía de prontuario — photograph taken during an arrest
• Spanish: fotografía policial — photograph taken during an arrest
• Swedish: förbrytarfoto — photograph taken during an arrest
• Swedish: mugshot — photograph taken during an arrest
• Vietnamese: hình cảnh sát — photograph taken during an arrest