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mob
1[ mob ]
noun
- a disorderly or riotous crowd of people.
- a crowd bent on or engaged in lawless violence.
- any group or collection of persons or things.
- the common people; the masses; populace or multitude.
- a criminal gang, especially one involved in drug trafficking, extortion, etc.
- the Mob, Mafia ( def 1 ).
- Sociology. a group of persons stimulating one another to excitement and losing ordinary rational control over their activity.
- a flock, herd, or drove of animals:
a mob of sheep.
adjective
- of, relating to, or characteristic of a lawless, irrational, disorderly, or riotous crowd: mob instincts.
mob rule;
mob instincts.
- directed at or reflecting the lowest intellectual level of the common people: the mob mentality.
mob appeal;
the mob mentality.
verb (used with object)
- to crowd around noisily, as from curiosity or hostility:
Spectators mobbed the courtroom.
- to attack in a riotous mob:
The crowd mobbed the consulate.
- Fox Hunting. to chop (a fox).
mob
2[ mobmohb ]
noun
- (in a video game) a hostile nonplayer character that the player may target and fight.
MOB
3- mother of the bride.
MOB
1abbreviation for
- mobile phone
mob
2/ mɒb /
noun
- a riotous or disorderly crowd of people; rabble
- ( as modifier )
mob violence
mob law
- derogatory.a group or class of people, animals, or things
- a flock (of sheep) or a herd (of cattle, esp when droving)
- derogatory.the masses
- slang.a gang of criminals
verb
- to attack in a group resembling a mob
- to surround, esp in order to acclaim
they mobbed the film star
- to crowd into (a building, plaza, etc)
- (of a group of animals of a prey species) to harass (a predator)
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Derived Forms
- ˈmobber, noun
- ˈmobbish, adjective
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Other Words From
- mobber mobbist noun
- mobbish adjective
- mobbish·ly adverb
- mobbish·ness noun
- mobbism noun
- un·mobbed adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of mob1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of mob1
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Example Sentences
The highest form of political courage is doing the right thing when the mob is against it.
General Brent Scowcroft, national security adviser to the first President Bush, shuffled head-down through the mob.
She apparently could even pick out her man of choice in a post-concert mob.
Moments later, a mob of about 25 young men burst through the door and unleashed a brutal attack on Singh.
Rather than helping though, policemen were actually complicit in the mob violence.
The parliament house and library of the British provinces, at Montreal, burned by a mob.
The moon rose on a terrified mob trudging or riding the forty miles of road between Meerut and the Mogul capital.
Two artillery subalterns who had fought their way through a mob stricken with panic for the moment, soon arrived.
The mob of relatives and friends wrecked and burned the castle, massacring the retainers to a man.
They are quite sure "the mob" will do no harm if it is vigilantly watched and thoroughly overawed.
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