Mobsman
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 […]"
Example
More examples"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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