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the mobster threatened to break his legs if he didn't pay up
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Regulars included mobsters, politicians and the super famous: Clark Gable, Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, Humphrey Bogart, Dean Martin, Gregory Peck, Cary Grant, Kirk Douglas and Bob Hope.
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Carolynn Carreño, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2025
When mobsters arrive to collect on an unpaid debt, his tranquil world is torn apart, forcing him to confront his past in a pulse-pounding showdown.
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Leo Barraclough, Variety, 6 Feb. 2025
Coolidge plays the ex-wife of a former mobster, played by Ed Harris, who tries to warn her family that two gangsters (Pete Davidson and Bill Murray) from their past are out to get them.
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Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 29 Jan. 2025
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The stronger man Nivola speaks of is Nikolai Kravinoff (Russell Crowe), a Russian mobster and rival of Aleksei.
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Tim Lammers, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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First Known Use
1917, in the meaning defined above
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“Mobster.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mobster. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
Kids Definition
mobster
noun
mob·ster
ˈmäb-stər
: a member of a criminal gang
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