Term: mug's game: a futile or unprofitable endeavor
Candidate hypernym: psychological feature: a feature of the mental life of a living organism → 1
Candidate hypernym: thornbill: any of various South American hummingbirds with a sharp pointed bill → 0
Candidate hypernym: printer's ink: a semisolid quick drying ink made especially for use in printing → 0
Candidate hypernym: egyptian grass: a creeping grass with spikes like fingers → 0
Candidate hypernym: tagger: someone who appends or joins one thing to another → 0
Candidate hypernym: posteriority: the quality of being toward the back or toward the rear end → 0
Candidate hypernym: darwinism: a theory of organic evolution claiming that new species arise and are perpetuated by natural selection → 0
Candidate hypernym: menorrhagia: abnormally heavy or prolonged menstruation; can be a symptom of uterine tumors and can lead to anemia if prolonged → 0
Candidate hypernym: problem: a question raised for consideration or solution → 0
Candidate hypernym: ballpark: a facility in which ball games are played (especially baseball games) → 0
Candidate hypernym: scat: singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument → 0