mobstern.

Brit.

/ˈmɒbstə/, U.S.

/ˈmɑbstər/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mob n.², -ster suffix.

Etymology: < mob n.² + -ster suffix. In sense 2 after gangster n.

†1. A member of a mob or crowd; a member of the common people. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1735 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1877) III. i. 88 This might have been, had Stout Clare Market mobsters, With Cleavers armd attack'd St. James's Lobsters.

1739 T. C. Paget Dialogue in Hudibrasticks 8 Like Mobsters in a frosty Day, When they a Game at Foot-Ball play, And keep all honest Folks within Doors, Whilst they are breaking Shins and Windows.

2. colloquial (originally U.S.). A member of a gang of criminals; spec. a member of the Mafia. Also in extended use. Cf. gangster n. 1a.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > a criminal or law-breaker > gangster

gangster1884

gangman1912

gangsman1912

mobster1917

racketeer1924

gangbanger1930

bandit1935

hot rod1936

goodfellow1963

G1989

1917 Lincoln (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.

1940 New Yorker 13 July 17/1 A mob nickname he got from the mobsters.

1947 J. 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.

1964 D. Varaday Gara-Yaka xviii. 159 The dead mobsters were mangy, disease-ridden outcasts of the dog world.

1990 Reader's Digest June 123/1 New York Police Detective Douglas Le Vien puzzled over the taped phone conversation of two mobsters.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mobster
释义	mobstern. Brit. /ˈmɒbstə/, U.S. /ˈmɑbstər/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mob n.², -ster suffix. Etymology: < mob n.² + -ster suffix. In sense 2 after gangster n. †1. A member of a mob or crowd; a member of the common people. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1735 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1877) III. i. 88 This might have been, had Stout Clare Market mobsters, With Cleavers armd attack'd St. James's Lobsters. 1739 T. C. Paget Dialogue in Hudibrasticks 8 Like Mobsters in a frosty Day, When they a Game at Foot-Ball play, And keep all honest Folks within Doors, Whilst they are breaking Shins and Windows. 2. colloquial (originally U.S.). A member of a gang of criminals; spec. a member of the Mafia. Also in extended use. Cf. gangster n. 1a. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > a criminal or law-breaker > gangster gangster1884 gangman1912 gangsman1912 mobster1917 racketeer1924 gangbanger1930 bandit1935 hot rod1936 goodfellow1963 G1989 1917 Lincoln (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. 1940 New Yorker 13 July 17/1 A mob nickname he got from the mobsters. 1947 J. 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. 1964 D. Varaday Gara-Yaka xviii. 159 The dead mobsters were mangy, disease-ridden outcasts of the dog world. 1990 Reader's Digest June 123/1 New York Police Detective Douglas Le Vien puzzled over the taped phone conversation of two mobsters. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1735
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