mob|ster

mob|ster
mob|ster «MOB stuhr», noun.
a chronic lawbreaker, especially a person who specializes in crimes of violence; criminal; gangster: »

I will not allow work on the piers to go to hoodlums and mobsters from New York (New York Times).


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