Mugwump (disambiguation)

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Mugwump can refer to:

  • Mugwumps, a group of Republican activists concerned in the United States presidential election of 1884.
  • Mugwumps, a group of pacifists, lead by Geoffrey Theodore Garratt, who joined the British Labour Party after the First World War.
  • Mugwump, a fictional creature created by William Burroughs in his 1959 book Naked Lunch.
  • Mugwump, an early computer game written in BASIC and presented in a book by David H. Ahl, the editor of Creative Computing magazine in the 1980s.
  • Mugwump, the last song on Terrorvision's 1996 album Regular Urban Survivors.
  • Mugwump Four, a short story by Robert Silverberg first published in Galaxy in August 1959. It deals with a man who stumbles upon a conspiracy of time-travelers via the titular telephone exchange. (It has been published in French under the title Le coup du téléphone.)
  • Mugwump Specific , a patent medicine for venereal disease in the late 19th century.
  • The Mugwumps , a 1960s rock band.
  • Mugwump, a fictional rank/title in the Harry Potter books, where Albus Dumbledore is described as 'Supreme Mugwump of the International Confederation of Wizards'.