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Mobsman

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A pickpocket working in groups. obsolete

    "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 […]"

Etymology

From mob + -s- + man.

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