mule

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.

   • One day he ran into a herd of a half dozen elk, so he rode his mule down the canyon three or four miles, leaving the sheep alone.
2. 2

   The generally sterile hybrid offspring of any two species of animals.

   • It would be exceedingly interesting to know if the hybrid would reproduce, a matter I deem exceedingly doubtful, for the chances are it would prove a "mule" (infertile).
3. 3

   A hybrid plant.

   • Vegetable mules supply an irrefragable argument in favour of the sexual system of botany.
   • The most extraordinary mule, however, that is asserted to have been produced on the Continent, is a cross between the cabbage and horse-radish, which Monsieur Sageret reports that he has obtained […]
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   1. 4

      A stubborn person.

      • "Where in the hell do you think I learned to be such a mule?”
   2. 5

      A person paid to smuggle drugs.

      • Cocaine packet ingestion (these patients referred to as “mules”) may warrant surgery, Golytely or expectant passage.
      • “Yeah, in Denver, we know about Uriarte's involvement in meth. Our Las Cruces office seized over six hundred pounds of methamphetamine from two of his mules last year.”
   3. 6

      A coin or medal minted with obverse and reverse designs not normally seen on the same…

      A coin or medal minted with obverse and reverse designs not normally seen on the same piece, either intentionally or in error.

      • What is less clear, however, is why mint workers should have chosen to produce mules, if they were making forgeries […]
   4. 7

      A MMORPG character, or NPC companion in a tabletop RPG, used mainly to store extra…

      A MMORPG character, or NPC companion in a tabletop RPG, used mainly to store extra inventory for the owner's primary character.

      • He was in the middle of organizing his massive stash of rare and exquisite bounty, all kept safely in the inventory cache of a mule, an entirely separate character which he paid a monthly fee to maintain exclusively for that purpose.
   5. 8

      Any of a group of cocktails involving ginger ale or ginger beer, citrus juice, and…

      Any of a group of cocktails involving ginger ale or ginger beer, citrus juice, and various liquors.

   6. 9

      A kind of triangular sail for a yacht.

      • In heavier seas where a boat must sail a course dictated by waves, or where wave action makes power more important than pointing, the mule will prove the faster sail.
   7. 10

      A kind of cotton-spinning machine.

   8. 11

      To smuggle (illegal drugs).

      • Thornton was supposed to mule it back to the States from one of the ports he stopped in, give it to Maxwell and Ames, and get the second half of a quarter-million.
   9. 12

      Any shoe with an upper covering the front of the foot but without a back flap or strap,…

      Any shoe with an upper covering the front of the foot but without a back flap or strap, leaving the heel exposed.

      • The bride was a shocking housekeeper and dragged round all day in boudoir cap, frowsy negligee and mules—slip, slop, slip, slop.
      • Routine dress for Tuesday will be bra and panties with high-heel satin mules.
      • On Monday, the tournament’s first day, Ms. Riddle wore a blush pink mini dress by Patou, paired with matching strawberry-adorned mules (a nod to the tournament’s well-known strawberry and cream dish) and a red Chanel purse.
   10. 13

       A surname.

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