mobster

noun

mob·​ster ˈmäb-stər How to pronounce mobster (audio)
: a member of a criminal gang

Examples of mobster in a Sentence

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 See all Example Sentences for mobster 

Word History

First Known Use

1917, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of mobster was in 1917

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“Mobster.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mobster. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.

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mobster

noun
mob·​ster ˈmäb-stər How to pronounce mobster (audio)
: a member of a criminal gang

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