| 释义 |
mobster slang (orig. U.S.).|ˈmɒbstə(r)|
[f. mob n.1 + -ster.]
A member of a group of criminals; cf. gangster. Also attrib. and transf.
1917Lincoln (Nebraska) Evening News 11 July 4 Many mobsters have left the city, it is asserted, and leaders of the mob are going to be hard to find. 1940New Yorker 13 July 17/1 A mob nickname he got from the mobsters. 1947E. Hyams William Medium x. 199 South African diamond mobsters. 1947J. Mulgan Report on Experience x. 125, I never lived in Chicago, but have a wide vicarious acquaintance from films and paperbacks of mobster-rule and gang-law. 1957Observer 3 Nov. 19/3 Mr. [Marc] Lawrence, renowned for his portraits of flinty Hollywood mobsters. 1962D. Warner Death of Bogey i. ii. 10 A scurrying horde of spivs and pimps, fiddlers and tweedlers, tearaways, mobsters. 1964D. Varaday Gara-Yaka xviii. 159 The dead mobsters were mangy, disease-ridden outcasts of the dog world. 1972D. E. Westlake Cops & Robbers (1973) xvi. 251, I was afraid to think about Vigano and his mobsters. |