The word 'mobster' is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a member of a criminal organization or gang, particularly in the context of organized crime. Example: The city's police force has launched a major operation to capture and arrest known mobsters who have been terrorizing the city for years.
Forget that she compromises her professionalism by sort of falling for a patient, and not just any old patient but a sociopathic, murdering mobster called Tony Soprano; remember, rather, that she nails what's wrong with him.
It is true that Weinberg, like Rosenberg in the film, left his wife for his mistress – but the abandoned Marie, unlike Rosalyn, did not end her marriage by getting shacked up comfortably with a mobster.
BOSTON has always seemed to enjoy the Bulger brothers: Whitey the mobster and Billy the politician, Irish boys from rough South Boston who grew up to rule the high and low ends of the city's power structure.
In a shameless bid to slow it down, his lawyers insist that he must be present at every hearing, only to cite reasons why he cannot be because of government business.In the second case a former mobster, Gaspare Spatuzza, will say in court what he has already reportedly told prosecutors: that Mr Berlusconi did a deal with the Mafia around the time that he entered politics in 1994.
The Clinton administration has welcomed the progress made in general; and it noted that when Venezuelan police recently arrested Pastor Perafan, an alleged Cali mobster, Mr Samper's men did not resist the United States' claim for his extradition thither rather than to Colombia.
Strangely, the beneficiary of that antipathy has been Mr Berlusconi, in whom many voters seem to have uncritical confidence, even when Mafia turncoats accuse him in court of having had mobster connections, as happened last month.This week's ruling is unlikely to do the prime minister much immediate damage.
Meryl Streep in the screen adaptation of Brian Friel's play, "Dancing at Lughnasa"; John Boorman's biopic of Irish mobster Martin Cahill, "The General"; and Fox's Full Monty-hopeful of the season, "Waking Ned Devine".
It is not the sort of victory that a British tycoon would expect if a famous magazine labelled him a mobster.
Though nobody can force Hizbullah to disarm, its refusal to do so, plus its declared aim of destroying Israel, deprives it of the respectability that is otherwise within reach.In principle, this is the perfect moment to apply the mobster theory.
WAN KWOK-KOI, better known as "Broken Tooth" Koi, Macau's most-wanted mobster, was watching a television programme about himself earlier this month when he was arrested in the Lisboa Hotel, a gaudy temple to the gambling that flourishes in this Portuguese colony on the Chinese coast.
Ruminating about his failed affairs, he lives alone in Marseilles, comforted by a few ill-sorted friends, who are nastily stalked by a mobster baddie eager to locate Babette (and surprisingly ignorant when it comes to disk-copying)."Solea" reads as if it yearns to be a film.
