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mooligrab verb to killl, murder: The Burkers would mooligrab Travellers cos they werenae registered and the authorities widnae jee their gingers [bother] aboot Travellers onywye. 20-. etymology: origin obscure; perhaps moolie ‘to kill’ + grab; or perhaps connected with Scots molligrups ‘a fit of sulks, melancholy or bad temper’; also attested in Shelta; also collected by SR and JS note:

Canadian Paul Pope (2013) attests a form molygrib ‘to rough someone up; put your hands all over them’.