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mule
/mjuːl/
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What does mule mean?
noun
- The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.
- The generally sterile hybrid offspring of any two species of animals.
- (informal) A stubborn person.
More meanings (10)
noun
- (slang) A person paid to smuggle drugs.
- A coin or medal minted with obverse and reverse designs not normally seen on the same piece, either intentionally or in error.
- A MMORPG character, or NPC companion in a tabletop RPG, used mainly to store extra inventory for the owner's primary character.
- Any of a group of cocktails involving ginger ale or ginger beer, citrus juice, and various liquors.
- A kind of triangular sail for a yacht.
- A kind of cotton-spinning machine.
- Any shoe with an upper covering the front of the foot but without a back flap or strap, leaving the heel exposed.
- (archaic) A hybrid plant.
verb
- (slang) To smuggle (illegal drugs).
proper noun
- A surname.
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IPA pronunciation
/mjuːl/
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She found him sewing up two bad gashes in the face of a little boy who had been kicked by a mule.
His dreams had collapsed when the mule drivers, dwindling rapidly, had wavered and hesitated on the little clearing, and then had recoiled.
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He drove the mule up into one of the larger cañóns and halted in the shadow of a pile of red rock.
Both beasts dropped down with a snort of disgust, for neither horse nor mule can bear to listen to an elephant’s voice.
Berries and plums abound in season, and quail and grouse and deer—the magnificent shaggy mule deer as well as the common species.