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mobsman

mobsman noun: a pickpocket working in groups.

Noun

mobsman (plural mobsmen)

  1. (obsolete) A pickpocket working in groups.
    • It is doubtful if the Victorian Londoner needed any warning, for the artful mobsmen, toolers, whizzers and dippers, together with their stickman accomplices, were everywhere in the crowds, in the underground, on railway trains […]1976, Michael Harrison, Beyond Baker Street: A Sherlockian Anthology, page 117

Forms of mobsman

pluralmobsmen

Origin of mobsman

From mob + -s- + man.

Questions about mobsman

What does mobsman mean?
Mobsman means a pickpocket working in groups.
What part of speech is mobsman?
Mobsman is a noun.
What is the plural of mobsman?
The plural of mobsman is mobsmen.

Words near mobsman in the dictionary

  1. mobot
  2. mobots
  3. mobproof
  4. mobs
  5. mobs up
  6. mobsman
  7. mobsmen
  8. mobster
  9. mobsterism
  10. mobsters
  11. mobstress

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