mobsman

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noun

A pickpocket working in groups.

Scrabble 13
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Meanings

nounmobsman (plural mobsmen)

plural mobsmen

  1. obsoleteA 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

Origin

From mob + -s- + man.

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APA

mobsman. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mobsman

MLA

“mobsman.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mobsman. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mobsman,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mobsman.

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