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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.

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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.

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adjective

of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a lawless, irrational, disorderly, or riotous crowd: mob rule; mob instincts.

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directed at or reflecting the lowest intellectual level of the common people: mob appeal; the mob mentality.

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Mob is one of our favorite verbs.

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to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.

to introduce subtleties into or argue subtly about.

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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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Example Sentences

In this look at organized crime and punishment, the mob meets its match.

But it can cause ego damage if the mob of students in his course on personal finance gets disorderly online.

Some of the violence has in fact been set off by removing mob bosses.

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In this look at organized crime and punishment, the mob meets its match.

But it can cause ego damage if the mob of students in his course on personal finance gets disorderly online.

Some of the violence has in fact been set off by removing mob bosses.

When chickadees hear the call, they flock together and mob the.

Exhibit number one is the hysterical mob stampede into the anthropogenic global warming hoax.

It wasn't a rainstorm that residents battened down for, but mob reprisals.

Day-trippers mob the lighthouse and the decommissioned fortress that towers above the campground.

Cyberbullying case leads to a teen girl's suicide, and an internet mob forms to take justice into its own hands.

Through a series of implausible events, the good brother falls afoul of the bad brother's mob friends.

But it was the mob that helped do for her in the end.

The two men were chased out of town by an angry mob.

Mob mentality develops during the junior high/middle school years, if kids are segregated by age.

Democracy was hard to tell from mob rule, and the style of mob rule.

Then there's the misconception that if you don't pay your debts, the mob will break your legs.

Because it is written, it is silent and therefore less threatening than a vocal mob.

As long as rioters are part of a street mob they feel strong and invulnerable.

One mob even broke both his boss's legs and left him for dead.

Take a few of these gentle people, throw them in with a mob and then watch out.

In both stories the protagonists have to flee, with an angry mob of monstrous creatures hot on their heals.

By appealing to the average citizen as a member of a mob and vilifying academia as a whole.

The vast bulk of executions take place only where the values of the lynch mob have endured, he says.

Police cars were overturned and shops looted as the mob descended on the city's central square.

So you're keeping a level head, but everyone around you is driving the crowd toward mob think.

Last week an armed mob chased her and two relations from the shack they shared.

Instead, they were attacked by a machete-wielding mob who thought they were thieves.

We're a global team with a flash mob agility to neutralize customer pain.

UN forces still provide vital backup to the police and army in their efforts to deal with land disputes and to limit mob justice.

The unruly mob then led the reverend to the banks of a nearby pond and threw him into the water.

The judge refused bail on the grounds that their release might provoke mob violence.

It took roughly five minutes for a pitchfork wielding lynch mob to descend on the local council buildings.

Democracy all too often means buying votes, rigging elections and mob rule.

The mob follows her a couple of blocks uptown, looking for another vacant patch of asphalt where she can make a scene.

One mob recently killed two people that it said had written about the group's activities online.

The eight-by-eight tiles piled up as the few overworked attendants were overwhelmed by the mob of young builders.

The mob has not become a party precisely because its views are so diverse.

They were still more of a riot than a movement-a faceless, leaderless mob growing daily as new adherents flocked in.

There is also a risk that raising a mob to force an election becomes an accepted part of the political process.

Their portrayal of the mob scene at the end became incredibly intense.

Then the mob prevented me from talking to her, and she slipped away.

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World English Dictionary

mob (mɒb)

—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 mobile]

'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

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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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Slang Dictionary

mob definition

[mɑb]

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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American Heritage

Abbreviations & Acronyms

MOB

medical office building
mother of the bride

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