the mob
The criminal syndicate
The mob refers to organized crime, particularly the Italian-American Mafia: His uncle had connections to the mob.
The term suggests a shadowy network of criminals operating like a business—loan sharking, racketeering, protection schemes.
More generally, the mob can mean any large, unruly crowd, especially one prone to violence or irrational behavior: The mob stormed the gates.
- crime familyCriminal organization by kinship
- crowdLarge public gathering
- mafiaCriminal organization using intimidation
- cartelPrice-fixing coalition
- hoi polloiThe common masses
great unwashed · syndicate · plebeians · proletariat · common folk · underworld · working class · organized crime · commoners · racket · rabble · masses · gang · omertà · riot · enforcers · hitmen · gangsters
- Italian AmericansItalian Americans, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Frank Sinatra, Martin Scorsese
- crime historyorganized crime, trial records, criminal records, Al Capone, Bonnie and Clyde
- organized crimemafia, syndicate, crime syndicate, crime syndicates, syndicates
the mobthe elite
Most powerful group
high society · polite society · rational discourse · blue bloods
mob, mobs, mobster, mobbed, mobsters, mobbing, mobocracy, flash mob, flash mobs