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   [mob] noun, adjective, verb, mobbed, mob·bing.
noun
1.
a disorderly or riotous crowd of people.
2.
a crowd bent on or engaged in lawless violence.
3.
any group or collection of persons or things.
4.
the common people; the masses; populace or multitude.
5.
a criminal gang, especially one involved in drug trafficking, extortion, etc.
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6.
the Mob, Mafia (def. 1).
7.
Sociology. a group of persons stimulating one another to excitement and losing ordinary rational control over their activity.
8.
a flock, herd, or drove of animals: a mob of sheep.
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adjective
9.
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a lawless, irrational, disorderly, or riotous crowd: mob rule; mob instincts.
10.
directed at or reflecting the lowest intellectual level of the common people: mob appeal; the mob mentality.

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verb (used with object)
11.
to crowd around noisily, as from curiosity or hostility: Spectators mobbed the courtroom.
12.
to attack in a riotous mob: The crowd mobbed the consulate.
13.
Fox Hunting. to chop (a fox).
Origin:
1680–90; short for Latin mōbile vulgus the movable (i.e., changeable, inconstant) common people

Related forms
mob·ber, mob·bist, noun
mob·bish, adjective
mob·bish·ly, adverb
mob·bish·ness, noun
mob·bism, noun
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un·mobbed, adjective
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mobs (mɒbz)
 
—pl n
1.  (usually foll by of) great numbers or quantities; lots: mobs of people
 
—adv
2.  (Austral), (NZ) a great deal: mobs better

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Word Origin & History

mob
1680s, "disorderly part of the population, rabble," slang shortening of mobile, mobility "common people, populace, rabble" (1670s), from L. mobile vulgus "fickle common people" (c.1600 in English), from mobile, neut. of mobilis "fickle, movable, mobile," from movere "to move" (see
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move). In Australia and N.Z., used without disparagement for "a crowd." Meaning "gang of criminals working together" is from 1839, originally of thieves or pick-pockets; Amer.Eng. sense of "organized crime in general" is from 1927. The verb meaning "to attack in a mob" is attested from 1709. Related: Mobbed; mobbing. Mob scene "crowded place" first recorded 1922. Mobocracy "mob rule" is attested from 1754.
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mob definition

[mɑb]
  1. n.
    the crime syndicate. (Underworld and journalistic.) : One of the biggest fish in the mob was pulled from the river yesterday.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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