[Ads-l] jugging

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

JL posted about "jugging" back in July 2025
https://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2025-July/167336.html

Bill Mullins posted about "gun jugging" today.
https://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2026-February/168731.html

Many tweets contain "jugging", but the meaning is often uncertain.
Here are some tweets that seem to fit the relevant sense.

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https://x.com/DISTRICTE_/status/186604735644708864?s=20
QPSM. @DISTRICTE_
This type of shit make me wanna go one a jugging rampage and steal
shit from everyone .
8:03 PM · Apr 1, 2012
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https://x.com/CEOcypha/status/345668500725055488?s=20
Music Marketing Cyph @CEOcypha
Yall are actually proud to steal another man's riches rather than earn
your own? Nothing cool about "jugging"
6:26 PM · Jun 14, 2013
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https://x.com/CHEFquit/status/532742052010668032?s=20
vacant @CHEFquit
"Jugging" or when ppl follow you to rob you from the atm #nojoke watch
your backs
10:49 PM · Nov 12, 2014
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https://x.com/ChrisCostaTV/status/628951276991213569?s=20
Chris Costa @ChrisCostaTV
Have you heard of bank "jugging?" - you need to be carful when you use an ATM
11:30 AM · Aug 5, 2015
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On Mon, Jul 7, 2025 at 8:04 AM Jonathan Lighter
<00001aad181a2549-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
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> https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-just-signed-law-against-110100675.html :
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> The back-to-back cases in late April are part of a tactic known as
> "jugging," where thieves watch people leave financial institutions or other
> businesses, then follow and rob them, often at their next stop.
>
> JL--
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
>
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