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mob

  [mob] noun, adjective, verb, mobbed, mob⋅bing.
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–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, esp. one involved in drug trafficking, extortion, etc.
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.
–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.
–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 L mōbile vulgus the movable (i.e., changeable, inconstant) common people

Related forms:
mobber, mobbist, noun
mobbish, adjective
mob⋅bish⋅ly, adverb
mob⋅bish⋅ness, noun
mobbism, noun
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mob   (mŏb)   
n.  
  1. A large disorderly crowd or throng. See Synonyms at crowd1.
  2. The mass of common people; the populace.
  3. Informal
    1. An organized gang of criminals; a crime syndicate.
    2. often Mob Organized crime. Often used with the: a murder suspect with links to the Mob.
  4. An indiscriminate or loosely associated group of persons or things: a mob of boats in the harbor.
  5. Australian A flock or herd of animals.
tr.v.   mobbed, mob·bing, mobs
  1. To crowd around and jostle or annoy, especially in anger or excessive enthusiasm: Eager fans mobbed the popular singer.
  2. To crowd into: Visitors mobbed the fairgrounds.
  3. To attack in large numbers; overwhelm: The quarterback was mobbed by the defensive line.

[Short for mobile, from Latin mōbile (vulgus), fickle (crowd), neuter of mōbilis; see mobile.]
mob'bish adj., mob'bish·ly adv.
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Mob

Mob\, n. [See Mobcap.] A mobcap. --Goldsmith.

Mob

Mob\, v. t. To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl. [R.]

Mob

Mob\, n. [L. mobile vulgus, the movable common people. See Mobile, n.]

1. The lower classes of a community; the populace, or the lowest part of it.

A cluster of mob were making themselves merry with their betters. --Addison.

2. Hence: A throng; a rabble; esp., an unlawful or riotous assembly; a disorderly crowd.

The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease. --Pope.

Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. --Madison.

Confused by brainless mobs. --Tennyson.

Mob law, law administered by the mob; lynch law.

Swell mob, well dressed thieves and swindlers, regarded collectively. [Slang] --Dickens.

Mob

Mob\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mobbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Mobbing.] To crowd about, as a mob, and attack or annoy; as, to mob a house or a person.
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Language Translation for : mob
Spanish: banda, chusma,
German: der Mob,
Japanese: 暴徒
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mob 
1688, "disorderly part of the population, rabble," slang shortening of mobile, mobility "common people, populace, rabble" (1676), from L. mobile vulgus "fickle common people" (1600), 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. Mobster is first attested 1917. Mob scene "crowded place" first recorded 1922. Mobocracy "mob rule" is attested from 1754.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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MOB
  1. medical office building
  2. mother of the bride
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