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mobsmen

mobsmen is the plural of mobsman.

Meaning of mobsman

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

Questions about mobsmen

What is mobsmen the plural of?
Mobsmen is the plural of mobsman.

Words near mobsmen in the dictionary

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

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