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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Following Bullets, Cordero played the title character’s husband in Waitress, as well as a mobster in A Bronx Tale. Erica Marrison, People.com, 5 July 2025 A lot of things have changed in the 100 years since prohibition empowered Al Capone and other mobsters to get rich selling booze on the black market. Alyssa Miller Hurley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2025 And for them, solving murders, consorting with mobsters, and adopting aliases all turn out to be more life-affirming—not to mention entertaining—than chair yoga and a salt-free diet. The New Yorker, New Yorker, 25 June 2025 Roe, an African American mobster, ran a policy wheel that offered prize money to players who picked the right sequence of random numbers. Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2025 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 12 Jul. 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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