mob boss

noun

: someone who controls part of an organized criminal group

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He’s gone fully rogue trying to hunt down this mob boss, even using her client to trick a different member of the gang into testifying for him. Ayan Artan, Vulture, 2 Mar. 2025 Meanwhile, former mob boss Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio) pursues his own political endeavors in New York, as the metropolis’ unlikely (?) mayor. Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 26 Feb. 2025 Now on a collision course with former mob boss turned political candidate Wilson Fisk, the entire city might implode. Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2025 In 1960s and 70s Hawaii, this formidable and charismatic mob boss rises to build the islands’ most powerful criminal empire, waging a brutal war against mainland corporations and rival syndicates while fighting to preserve his ancestral land. Justin Kroll, Deadline, 20 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mob boss

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“Mob boss.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mob%20boss. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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