Underboss is an English word with synonyms like assistant or helper. Below you'll find 5 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Underboss meaning
An assistant to the boss of a crime family
Using Underboss
- The main meaning on this page is: An assistant to the boss of a crime family
- Useful related words include: assistant, helper, help, supporter.
Context around Underboss
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 3 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Underboss
- In this selection, "underboss" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 19.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, former and may stand out and add context to how "underboss" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include don s underboss is his and sometimes an underboss may do. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "underboss" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with underboss
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Serving as the Don's underboss is his oldest son, Santino. (11 words)
Olsen would merit the title of underboss in the Arena pitch family. (12 words)
John “Sonny” Franzese, the former underboss of the Colombo Crime Family, has died at 103, according to TMZ. (18 words)
It's absurd for Baquet to use tactics for deflecting any responsibility for what happens at his paper on his watch: "Oh, the capo told the underboss that someone was getting whacked? (32 words)
Sometimes an underboss may do this in penance to the oyabun if he wants to spare a member of his own gang from further retaliation. (25 words)
John “Sonny” Franzese, the former underboss of the Colombo Crime Family, has died at 103, according to TMZ. (18 words)
It's absurd for Baquet to use tactics for deflecting any responsibility for what happens at his paper on his watch: "Oh, the capo told the underboss that someone was getting whacked? (32 words)
Example sentences (5)
John “Sonny” Franzese, the former underboss of the Colombo Crime Family, has died at 103, according to TMZ.
Olsen would merit the title of underboss in the Arena pitch family.
It's absurd for Baquet to use tactics for deflecting any responsibility for what happens at his paper on his watch: "Oh, the capo told the underboss that someone was getting whacked?
Serving as the Don's underboss is his oldest son, Santino.
Sometimes an underboss may do this in penance to the oyabun if he wants to spare a member of his own gang from further retaliation.