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mobster

[ mob-ster ]

noun

  1. a member of a criminal mob.


mobster

/ ˈ³¾É’²ú²õ³ÙÉ™ /

noun

  1. a US slang word for gangster
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Origin of mobster1

1915–20, Americanism; mob 1 (in the sense “a member of a criminal gangâ€)+ -ster
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The bad guys are cannon fodder, though I did like the way one mobster sadly sighs at a grenade before he explodes.

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They don't produce mobsters like they used to, Giancarlo Romano told an associate in a wiretapped conversation before he was shot dead a year ago.

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Although many mobsters are in jail, the Carabinieri said they had succeeded in smuggling tiny mobile phones into their cells in an attempt to continue their criminal activities.

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To that point, Roll Call reports Trump, “at a House GOP retreat Monday evening in Florida, compared himself with mobster Al Capone, saying the gangster 'was not investigated as much as your president was investigated.'â€

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Read Part 2: How an informant nearly brokered a cartel alliance and Part 3: A mobster helped the feds arrest drug dealers.

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