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mobsman

n. (context obsolete English) A pickpocket working in groups.

Usage examples of "mobsman".

MANY a mobsman had quailed before the snarling face of Killer Durgan, but Ernie Shires did not follow their example.

The minions of Marty Lunk - a horde of mobsmen stationed on both streets - would use this passage as their citadel.

Quartered in a dilapidated hideout, his one lone mobsman listening and nodding, Marty Lunk was vowing vengeance.

A great tooler could go on to be a swell mobsman, though most, even some of the best, got their hands to shaking from too frequent imbibement of gin or brandy or found their minds preoccupied and numbed to action by the fear of being caught and transported.

THIS mobsman - one of the few who had escaped uninjured from the affray at the Cathcart estate - had forgotten all else in his mad desire to square accounts with The Shadow.

He was the being who had delivered that counterstroke to rout Socks Mallory and his crowd of mobsmen!