mule
noun
- person who smuggles contraband across a border for a smuggling organization
- offspring of a male donkey (jack) and a female horse (mare)
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /mjuːl/ / /mjuːəl/ / /mjʉl/
name
Etymology: Various origins: * A nickname for a stubborn person, from Middle English mule (“mule”) or, alternatively, an occupational surname for a driver of pack animals. * Borrowed from Italian Mulè. * Borrowed from French Mule.
- A surname.
noun
Etymology: From Middle French mule (“backless slipper”), from Medieval Latin mula (“slipper, shoe with a thick sole”), presumably from classical Latin mulleus, the dyed shoe of either the patricians or senators, from mūllus (“red mullet”) + -eus (“-y: forming adjectives”), from Ancient Greek μύλλος (múllos).
- 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.”
verb
Etymology: Etymology tree substratebor.? Proto-Italic *musklos? Latin mūlus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂ Proto-Italic *-ā Latin -a Latin mūla Anglo-Norman mulebor. ▲ Latin mūlusbor. Proto-West Germanic *mūl Old English mūl Middle English mule English mule Inherited from Middle English mule, from Anglo-Norman mule (“she-mule”) and Old English mūl, both ultimately from Latin mūlus, from Proto-Indo-European *mukslós. Compare Late Latin muscellus (“young he-mule”), Old East Slavic мъшкъ (mŭškŭ, “mule”), Ancient Greek (Phocian) μυχλός (mukhlós, “he-ass”), and German Maul Maultier, Maulesel (through Latin).
- To smuggle (illegal drugs).
“There are many drug lords, each with his own corridor (think of it as a franchise of sorts) funneling narcotics into Texas. There are multifold methods of transport. The old, and still viable, way is to "mule" it across the Rio Grande in a small boat.”
“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.”