ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Mobsman

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Mobsman is a noun meaning (obsolete) A pickpocket working in groups.

Meaning

(obsolete) A pickpocket working in groups.

Example Sentences

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 […]

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include swell, mobber, swell-mobsman, muzzler, stickman, diver.

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