Crew
Crew noun - A group involved in secret or criminal activities.
Usage example: when one boy turned informant, the police were able to nab the drug kingpin and the rest of his crew
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Synonyms for Crew
Mob
Mob noun - A group involved in secret or criminal activities.
Usage example: the club owner was accused of having connections with a mob of racketeers
Crew is a synonym for mob in gang topic. You can use "Crew" instead a noun "Mob", if it concerns topics such as large group of people. popular alternative
Nearby Word: mobster
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- Instead, the crew finds half a million dollars of money stashed by an out-of-town mob.
Source: Robbing the Mob Bank -
When they think the crew is abandoning them they turn into a mob and force their way in.
- One episode has Roger Daltrey playing a long-missing mob boss who's come back to kill his old crew.
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