mule

Meanings

Noun

• The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.
• The generally sterile hybrid offspring of any two species of animals.
• A hybrid plant.
• A stubborn person.
• A person paid to smuggle drugs.
• A coin or medal minted with obverse and reverse designs not normally seen on the same piece, either intentionally or in error.
• A MMORPG character, or NPC companion in a tabletop RPG, used mainly to store extra inventory for the owner's primary character.
• Any of a group of cocktails involving ginger ale or ginger beer, citrus juice, and various liquors.
• A kind of triangular sail for a yacht.
• A kind of cotton-spinning machine.
• A shoe that has no fitting or strap around the heel, but which covers the foot.

Verb

• To smuggle (illegal drugs).

Related

Similar words

• Missouri canary

Origin

• From Middle English mule, from Anglo-Norman mule and Old English mūl, both from Latin mūlus, from Proto-Indo-European *mukslós. Compare Late Latin muscellus ("young he-mule"), Old East Slavic мъшкъ ("mule"), Ancient Greek (Phocian) μυχλός, and German Maul Maultier, Maulesel (through Latin).
• From Middle French mule ("slipper"), from Latin mulleus calceus, from mullus.