Any game you are more likely to lose than win, no matter how sweet the odds or how much it LOOKS like you'll win.
"Hey man, I'm gonna go play poker with Scott. You in?"
"Hell no, that's a mug's game. Scott's a professional magician, are you stupid? He'll rob you blind."
"Alright man, your loss. I like my chances."
"Hell no, that's a mug's game. Scott's a professional magician, are you stupid? He'll rob you blind."
"Alright man, your loss. I like my chances."
by Fresnel February 9, 2010

by Mikewaukee May 25, 2021

by Moon Base Alpha June 23, 2015

n. a very large coffee cup, capable of holding five to six regular cups of coffee.
v. the act of filling a jungle mug, and hence stealing everyone else's share of the coffee.
v. the act of filling a jungle mug, and hence stealing everyone else's share of the coffee.
by FURG October 23, 2007

by HydroGrrl December 13, 2004

Investors might discover in the weeks ahead that calling a bottom in the housing downturn is a mug's game.
Wall Street Journal Justin Lahart wrote this sentence
Wall Street Journal Justin Lahart wrote this sentence
by Jill M. Landsman January 10, 2007

Usually morning coffee break. Still used on the waterfront in New England fishing towns particularly Gloucester, MA. Term was used in the movie Captains Corageous ( 1925, Spenser Tracy ) to add local flavor to this movie about the hard life of the Gloucester fishermen.
coffee break Mug-up
by FFbob August 31, 2012
