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mobsman

noun

Etymology

From mob + -s- + man.

  1. inherited from *mon-✻ — “human being, man”
  2. inherited from *mann-✻ — “man”
  3. inherited from *mann✻
  4. inherited from mann — “human being, person, man”
  5. inherited from man
  6. formed as mobsman — “mob + -s- + man”

Definitions

  1. 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 […]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA