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.
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.
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mob (mɒb) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a. a riotous or disorderly crowd of people; rabble |
| b. (as modifier): mob law; mob violence | |
| 2. | derogatory often a group or class of people, animals, or things |
| 3. | (Austral), (NZ) a flock (of sheep) or a herd (of cattle, esp when droving) |
| 4. | derogatory often the masses |
| 5. | slang a gang of criminals |
| —vb , mobs, mobbing, mobbed | |
| 6. | to attack in a group resembling a mob |
| 7. | to surround, esp in order to acclaim: they mobbed the film star |
| 8. | to crowd into (a building, plaza, etc) |
| 9. | (of a group of animals of a prey species) to harass (a predator) |
| [C17: shortened from Latin mōbile vulgus the fickle populace; see | |
| 'mobber | |
| —n | |
| 'mobbish | |
| —adj | |
| MOB | |
| —abbreviation for | |
| mobile phone | |
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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
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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Slang Dictionary
mob definition[mɑb]
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
MOB
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Example sentences
If you manage to see anything besides a mob of other people, you will glimpse the bulls for about three seconds.
There was a whole mob of people staring at their shoes.
But it was not immediately clear who the killers were linked to, or if they were from a rival drug mob.
Before that could happen, a mob burst into the jail and killed him.
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