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 The film will chart the pursuit and capture of one of America’s most ruthless mobsters and serial killers by notorious DEA Agent Jim Hunt (who also helped take down El Chapo) played by Paul Walter Hauser (Black Bird). —

Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 27 Mar. 2026 This leads to a chaotic rigmarole in which, bit by bit, the Hungarian mobsters stream downstairs to either take advantage of the girls or do away with them, forcing them to rely on their discipline and athletic training to mount a response. —

Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 14 Mar. 2026 The mobsters turned the van around, pulled off the highway and dumped Gasso in a patch of poison ivy along the Connecticut River in Wethersfield. —

Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 12 Feb. 2026 Police officials at a news conference said the officers had collected personal and private information unlawfully and distributed it to organized crime figures, in some cases for bribes, and that mobsters then carried out shootings and other violent crimes. —

Arkansas Online, 6 Feb. 2026 From Sweet Sue’s big opening song to the train ride west to hopping over the border to Mexico and back, the characters have to navigate love, life, and high heels while mobsters and feds surround them. —

Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 20 Jan. 2026 There was also a lot of speculation that Ruby was involved with organized crime, as he was known to be friends with mobsters, mafia members and other members of the criminal underworld. —

Skyler Trepel, PEOPLE, 24 Nov. 2025 There, surrounded by mobsters, the future moviemaker embraced Catholicism and the Italian code of omertà. —

Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 31 Oct. 2025 Its companions are four Russian mobsters — stragglers from the previous season — laying on their stomachs with their necks outstretched over the rail. —

Demetrius Patterson, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2025

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Noun

No government masked thugs shooting down our neighbors in the streets.

— Ted Johnson, Deadline, 28 Mar. 2026
Suddenly Odin gets a call telling him Korps leader Attila (Eili Harboe) and her thugs are on their way to finish the job.

— K.J. Yossman, Variety, 27 Mar. 2026