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the mobster threatened to break his legs if he didn't pay up
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In the new Amazon Prime series, Diamantopoulos’ mobster Mike Byrne teams up with Martindale’s maple syrup farmer Ruth Landry and Guillaume Cyr's security guard Remy Bouchard to pull a multi-million dollar heist on Quebec’s maple syrup surplus.
—Charna Flam, People.com, 1 Jan. 2025
Read Part 2: How an informant nearly brokered a cartel alliance and Part 3: A mobster helped the feds arrest drug dealers.
—Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2024
They are typically set in predominantly male worlds with traditionally masculine archetypes at the center: cowboys, ranchers, intelligence operatives, mobsters, fixers, oilmen.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2024
Thom Christopher, the Daytime Emmy-winning actor who portrayed the mobster Carlo Hesser and his meeker twin brother, Mortimer Bern, on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live, has died.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1917, in the meaning defined above
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“Mobster.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mobster. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
Kids Definition
mobster
noun
mob·ster
ˈmäb-stər
: a member of a criminal gang
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Nglish: Translation of mobster for Spanish Speakers
Britannica English: Translation of mobster for Arabic Speakers
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