Thesaurus results for MOBSTER

mobster

noun

ˈmäb-stər

as in thug

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 mobster In the new Amazon Prime series, Diamantopoulos’ mobster Mike Byrne teams up with Martindale’s maple syrup farmer Ruth Landry and Guillaume Cyr's security guard Remy Bouchard to pull a multi-million dollar heist on Quebec’s maple syrup surplus. —

Charna Flam, People.com, 1 Jan. 2025 Read Part 2: How an informant nearly brokered a cartel alliance and Part 3: A mobster helped the feds arrest drug dealers. —

Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2024 They are typically set in predominantly male worlds with traditionally masculine archetypes at the center: cowboys, ranchers, intelligence operatives, mobsters, fixers, oilmen. —

Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2024 Thom Christopher, the Daytime Emmy-winning actor who portrayed the mobster Carlo Hesser and his meeker twin brother, Mortimer Bern, on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live, has died. —

Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for mobster

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Noun

Although the new government seems willing to listen to Alawite concerns, there’s a lingering resentment, with many pointing to the community’s complicity in torture and war crimes — whether in the security services or gangs of thugs known as the shabiha — over the 14 years of the conflict.

— Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025
There was a time, not long ago, when men who lifted weights for fun were seen as either thugs or narcissists.

— Danielle Friedman, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025