mobster
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bully, gangbanger, gangsta, gangster, goon, gorilla, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, mug, plug-ugly, punk, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, thug, tough, toughie (also toughy), yob [British], yobbo [British]
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Once Hitler came to power, Jewish mobsters in cities from New York City to Los Angeles violently disrupted Nazi meetings and attacked Nazis, determined to stop the rise of fascism in the U.S. — Eric Ginsburg, Teen Vogue, "American Nazis and Nazi Sympathizers Have Been Around Since the 1930’s," 26 Nov. 2018 At the time, Webb was living in New Bedford with his wife and stepson and had ties to mobsters in Rhode Island. — Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, "State officials smash multimillion-dollar gaming ring; gangster’s stepson was kingpin, prosecutors say," 28 June 2018 Sherman and Lev make it into the Artemis and are dubbed Waikiki and Honolulu, respectively; Waikiki is the unwitting owner of a very valuable pen belonging to a Malibu mobster known as Wolfking (Jeff Goldblum), who becomes Niagara upon check-in. — Michael Phillips, latimes.com, "Jodie Foster patches the wounded in lively future-crime saga 'Hotel Artemis'," 8 June 2018 He was kicked out of witness protection in 2004 when he was charged with lying to investigators for suggesting another mobster killed DiSarro, but was later allowed back under government protection. — Fox News, "Ex-Mafia boss 'Cadillac Frank' sentenced to life in prison," 13 Sep. 2018 As well as arresting dozens of suspected mobsters in Italy, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, police seized drugs and around 2 million euros ($2.3 million). — Mike Corder, The Seattle Times, "Police arrest 84 in European crackdown on Italian mob," 5 Dec. 2018 Journalists reporting on Ostia's mobsters have been physically threatened. — Fox News, "Pope encourages mobster-plagued town to take law's side," 3 June 2018 The irony is that Capra, born dirt poor in Sicily and an Italian immigrant with all the Italian mobster stereotypes that went with it, best depicted the American dream of the greatest generation in his movies. — WSJ, "Capra Beats Coppola in Immigrant Values," 1 Jan. 2019 The following excerpt from Handsome Johnny, Lee Server's biography of West Coast mobster Johnny Rosselli, details why Sinatra fell out of favor with the Kennedy family. — Lee Server, Town & Country, "The Real Reason Frank Sinatra Was Banned from the Kennedy White House," 7 Nov. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'mobster.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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