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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mobster
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He unleashed another murderous war in the 1980s, eliminating more than 800 mobsters until the Corleone clan was dominant.
▪ Hoblit has made more money off crime than most mobsters.
▪ In 1997 Mr Nero's evidence helped to convict 46 mobsters.
▪ Secret negotiations are under way with jailed mobsters to bring him down.
▪ That would be like putting mobster John Gotti at the head of the Justice Department.
▪ Their $ 7,000 fees to the immigration mobsters were met by their families' sacrifice and borrowing.
▪ There are a lot of famous actors in it, mostly reprising bits from their previous roles as cops or mobsters.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mobster

1916, from mob (n.) in the criminal sense + -ster.

Wiktionary
mobster

n. a member of a mob or Mafia

WordNet
mobster

n. a criminal who is a member of gang [syn: gangster]

Usage examples of "mobster".

His claim that Zern had hired Peld to import mobsters into Georgia and crack down on the Aureole Mine was an almost outrageous statement.

The Shadow had been forced to pick off Dorry and the second mobster, instead of aiming for the driver of the touring car.

Followed by four mobsters, Driller Borson entered a huge living room which was illuminated by the flicker of candles on the mantelpiece.

In place of Tonk the mobster, a weird figure had joined Driller Borson in the secluded room.

Since when had a bunch of mobsters who killed, raped, and sold dope, women, and 113 Rita Clay Estrada hooch been considered fair?

She had also worked in Detroit, where a mobster called Scotty Gow operated, sometimes dabbling in kidnapping for profit.

The bank quickly expanded its activities and became the principal bank used by Lansky and his mobster associates for laundering money garnered from prostitution, drugs and other Mafia rackets.

Five mobsters, all of them gorillas of Morello lay in a bloody shambles on the floor.

Finally, in thinking they could use a mobster to trap a terrorist, the story underscores the apparent naivete of FBI agents and prosecutors in the Southern District.

His accent was the near Brooklynese of the Irish Channel part of town, befitting a movie mobster.

He realized only that anyone who could govern such powerful mobsters as Socks Mallory and Moocher Gleetz must, indeed, be a supercrook.

The mobsters under Socks Mallory could not have heard that noise, but their leader must have sensed that police intervention was imminent.

Both Joe and Ray Bernstein had grown up with the young mobsters associated with the Oakland Sugar House Gang and were close friends and business associates of many of these men.

The Purple Gang graduated from juvenile delinquents to mobsters with the rackets that new liquor laws inspired.

A dozen mobsters were coming toward him, led by a tall man with a cleft chin, a beaked nose, dark eyes, and white hair, and wearing a gray suit.