1. a member of a criminal
mob.
Examples from the web for mobster
- But he has good reason: a powerful mobster's art collection has been stolen, and he wants it returned.
- If you really were fighting it all real mobster would have been arrested by now not the all street protester.
- For all their presumed sophistication, they lacked a mobster's better-honed instincts for conversational discretion.
British Dictionary definitions for mobster
Word Origin and History for mobster
n. 1916, from mob (n.) in the criminal sense + -ster.
Slang definitions & phrases for mobster
mobster
noun A member of a criminal grouping; a Mafioso; gangster: nickname he got from the mobsters (1917+)