ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Mule

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /mjuːl/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Mule is a noun meaning The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.

Meaning

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.
(now rare) A hybrid plant.
(informal) A stubborn person.
(numismatics) A coin or medal minted with obverse and reverse designs not normally seen on the same piece, either intentionally or in error.
Any of a group of cocktails involving ginger ale or ginger beer, citrus juice, and various liquors.
(roleplaying games) A MMORPG character, or NPC companion in a tabletop RPG, used mainly to store extra inventory for the owner's primary character.
(slang) A person paid to smuggle drugs.

"Where in the hell do you think I learned to be such a mule?”

Vegetable mules supply an irrefragable argument in favour of the sexual system of botany.

Cocaine packet ingestion (these patients referred to as “mules”) may warrant surgery, Golytely or expectant passage.

What is less clear, however, is why mint workers should have chosen to produce mules, if they were making forgeries […]

Depending on context, synonyms include donkey, bulldog, scuff, scuffs, mules.

Related dictionary entries include scuff, scuffs, donkey, burro, slipper, shuttle.

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