American English pronunciation
How to pronounce mobs
IPA transcription: ['mɑbz]
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Noun
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a disorderly crowd of people
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an association of criminals
“police tried to break up the gang”
“a pack of thieves”
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a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
Verb
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press tightly together or cram
“The crowd packed the auditorium”
Usage examples
- A courier, she was famous for being the girlfriend of mobster Bugsy Siegel.
- He condemned lynching and tried to protect black voters from lynch mobs.
- They also turned Thomas Buffa, a Saint Louis mobster involved in the ring.
- "The Sopranos" stars James Gandolfini as the Italian-American New Jersey-based contemporary mobster Tony Soprano.
- Ruggiero relished life as a mobster.