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mobbed-up

mobbed-up adjective: involved with the Mafia.

Adjective

mobbed-up (comparative more mobbed-up, superlative most mobbed-up)

  1. (slang) Involved with the Mafia.
    • In this way, cartels of mobbed-up outfits drove everyone else out of the business. The impact of organized crime on the union movement was ruinous.2006, Guy Lawson, William Oldham, The Brotherhoods: The True Story of Two Cops Who Murdered for the Mafia
    • The following morning a little detective work led me to Spiro's, a mobbed-up social club on Eighteenth Avenue that was Frankie Carbone's hangout.2005, Lou Eppolito, Bob Drury, Mafia Cop, page 218

Forms of mobbed-up

comparativemore mobbed-up
superlativemost mobbed-up

Questions about mobbed-up

What does mobbed-up mean?
Mobbed-up means involved with the Mafia.
What part of speech is mobbed-up?
Mobbed-up is an adjective.

Words near mobbed-up in the dictionary

  1. MOBAs
  2. MoBay
  3. Mobaye
  4. mobbed
  5. mobbed up
  6. mobbed-up
  7. mobber
  8. Mobberley
  9. mobbers
  10. mobbing
  11. mobbing up

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