mobbed-up
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[edit]mobbed-up (comparative more mobbed-up, superlative most mobbed-up)
- (slang) Involved with the Mafia.
- 2006, Guy Lawson, William Oldham, The Brotherhoods: The True Story of Two Cops Who Murdered for the Mafia:
- In this way, cartels of mobbed-up outfits drove everyone else out of the business. The impact of organized crime on the union movement was ruinous.
- 2005, Lou Eppolito, Bob Drury, Mafia Cop, page 218:
- The following morning a little detective work led me to Spiro's, a mobbed-up social club on Eighteenth Avenue that was Frankie Carbone's hangout.