A mug shot or mugshot (an informal term for police photograph, or booking photograph), is a photographic portrait typically taken after a person is arrested. The original purpose of the mug shot was to allow law enforcement to have a photographic record of an arrested individual to allow for identification by victims and investigators. Photographi...
Mug shot is British slang for a police photograph.Mug-shot is slang for a portrait photograph. Often with regard to a police photo of a criminal.
A head-and-shoulders photograph of a person facing the camera.
[n] - a photograph of someone`s face (especially one made for police records)
mugshot noun a photograph of someone`s face (especially one made for police records)
an identifying photograph of a suspect or criminal, often one of a set showing a frontal view, a profile view, and a view of the back of the head. · any closeup photograph of one's face.