Some people carry a ten dollar bill, to keep the potential mugger happy and stave off an angry attack.

Every person looks like a potential mugger or bag-snatcher to him.

Carol found herself wondering, idiotically, when exactly it had become fashionable for respectable lads to look like potential muggers.

Every potential mugger was after us.

Mr. Peak said that flashing his gun once protected him from two potential muggers at a highway rest stop.

For recreation he walked the streets in a kind of trance, oblivious to traffic, pedestrians, and potential muggers.

None of the potential muggers who watched his progress even considered making an attempt on him--there was something about the way he walked, one had said.

It employed innovative methods, including possibly the earliest coordinated sting operations to elicit potential muggers.

Across the car from her, Sergei looked like he was sleeping; eyes closed, posture slightly slumped but still alert enough to warn off potential muggers.

My impression is that a woman who uses a tear-gas pen on a potential mugger or rapist is in a gray area.