The meaning of MOBSTER is a member of a criminal gang. How to use mobster in a sentence.
MOBSTER definition: 1. a gangster 2. a gangster 3. a person, esp. a man, who belongs to an organization of criminals. Learn more.
Definition of mobster noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
A mobster is someone who is a member of an organized group of violent criminals. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers
"member of a group of criminals," 1916, from mob (n.) in the criminal sense + -ster. See origin and meaning of mobster.
Someone who belongs to such a group is a mobster or a gangster. The term mobster comes from mob, another name for the Mafia, an Italian organized crime group. Originally mob meant just "a large group of people" or "the common people," from the Latin phrase mobile vulgus, "fickle common people."
Noun Wikidata has a Lexeme related to: mobster (L324052) mobster (plural mobsters) A member of a mob or Mafia.