mug up

Example sentences from the Web for mug up

• You always do mug-up the business when you try to do more than I tell you.

  On the Track |Henry Lawson

• Mug-up, to paint ones face, or dress specially with a view to impersonation.

  The Slang Dictionary |John Camden Hotten

• Most of the men lighted a pipe, and one or two took a 'mug-up' from the coffee-kettle.

  The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries |Francis Rolt-Wheeler