Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a criminal gang or crime syndicate.
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- noun a member of a
criminal gang
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- noun a criminal who is a member of gang
Etymologies
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Examples
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What mobster is going to guess that a huge dude is FBI. noahsplash
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Only the head mobster is a bully who makes his money selling fake hall passes, the beautiful bad girl is “twelve but looks fourteen” and wields a mean squirt gun.
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Chase understood clearly that when it matters, even a nice-seeming mobster is unambiguously on the wrong side.
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(But it comes out like "mobster" - same difference?).
Autism Hub 2008
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(But it comes out like "mobster" - same difference?).
Autism Vox 2008
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When Tony bumps into a mobster from the old neighborhood, he gives Tony an offer he can’t refuse: his daughter.
Who’s the Boss “Tony & the Princess” Minisode - The Retroist 2010
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George Roy Hill’s twisty caper film starring the Paul Newman and Robert Redford as a pair of grifters orchestrating a complicated con on a powerful mobster is an excellent period revenge comedy.
Whatever happened to simple “story” films? « Third Point of Singularity 2009
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You hurriedly roll sheets of plastic onto the clubhouse floor as if a mobster were about to be whacked and you fold up the chairs and stuff them into the lockers.
Colin Barnicle: Wearing Goggles at the End Is Good Colin Barnicle 2010
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You hurriedly roll sheets of plastic onto the clubhouse floor as if a mobster were about to be whacked and you fold up the chairs and stuff them into the lockers.
Colin Barnicle: Wearing Goggles at the End Is Good Colin Barnicle 2010
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You hurriedly roll sheets of plastic onto the clubhouse floor as if a mobster were about to be whacked and you fold up the chairs and stuff them into the lockers.
Colin Barnicle: Wearing Goggles at the End Is Good Colin Barnicle 2010
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