Thesaurus results for MOBSTERS

mobsters

noun

plural of mobster

as in thugs

a violent, brutal person who is often a member of an organized gang the mobster threatened to break his legs if he didn't pay up

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Recent Examples of mobsters He gets involved with mobsters in a shady loan scheme that lands him in prison. — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026 The aging mobsters are out of control, and Harry is control incarnate. — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2026 The plot against Zeraati is part of a widening campaign by the Iranian government which involves hiring criminals—Russian mobsters, Hells Angels bikers, and even Swedish teen-agers—to attack its detractors and sow fear among Iranians in exile. — Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2026 The new manager solved the Bang Records problem by walking into a Ninth Avenue warehouse and handing over $20,000 in cash to two mobsters dressed to the nines. — Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026 Hoffa drove to a restaurant in a Detroit suburb to meet two reputed mobsters. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 July 2026 In Breaking Bear, a family of furry forest dwellers use everything in their power — including high explosives and drug money — to fight the frackers, mobsters, and a monstrous wolf pack threatening to destroy their home. — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 25 June 2026 But in April 2005, following an investigation dubbed Operation Family Secrets, 14 Chicago mobsters were charged with 18 then-as-yet-unsolved murders — including those of the Spilotros. — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 23 June 2026 But local history, including the region’s dead mobsters, Irish Catholic community, state prisons, and shuttered Italian restaurants, looms large on their new Coin-O-Matic. — Arman Khan, Pitchfork, 19 June 2026

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Noun

The residents occasionally gather in a disused rec center but the meetings devolve into rants about immigrants, junkies, thugs and vigilantism.

— Jessica Kiang, Variety, 26 Sep. 2026
That a Christian man was responsible for the devastation in Oklahoma City certainly didn’t matter to the thugs who terrorized a Muslim woman there, nearly seven months pregnant, by attacking her home, breaking her windows, screaming religious slurs.

— Reshma Memon Yaqub, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of thugs

Noun

Somebody like Gilroy or Jeff Kober and Barry Corbin (popping up occasionally as a pair of geriatric gangsters) will come and go in situations knowingly designed to feel contrived.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2026
And the next thing, a knock come at the door and these gangsters come in with guns.

— Jon Wertheim, CBS News, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of gangsters

Noun

The Financial Action Task Force, the global money-laundering watchdog, has warned that criminals exploit citizenship and residency programs to conceal their identities, launder illicit wealth and evade justice.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026
In a world that escalated from criminals planning a heist to steal DVD players to flying in a rocketship to space, anything’s possible.

— Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of criminals

Noun

The way it’s framed, both the heroes and the villains can only come from the tech community.

— Rumman Chowdhury, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2026
There aren’t any villains here, just young people making young people mistakes and older people making older people mistakes.

— Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of villains

Noun

Still, despite the typical procedural formula with cases tied to gun smugglers, cartel assassins and kidnappings, the show remains topical enough to keep viewers engaged.

— Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 25 Sep. 2026
To that end, the presence of Kyle Soller and MyAnna Buring as the two assassins targeting the Slow Horses has been the new season’s most consistently chilling development.

— Scott Tobias, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2026

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