mob (mɒb
)
Definitions
noun
- a riotous or disorderly crowd of people; rabble
- ((as modifier) ⇒
mob law
mob violence
- often derogatory a group or class of people, animals, or things
- Australian New Zealand a flock (of sheep) or a herd (of cattle, esp when droving)
- often derogatory the masses
- slang a gang of criminals
verb
Word forms: mobs, mobbing, mobbed
(tr) - 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)
See also
mobsAlternative Forms
ˈmobber noun ˈmobbish adjectiveWord Origin
C17: shortened from Latin mōbile vulgus the fickle populace; see mobileUsage examples
The `heavy mob " from New York of which Schneider had spoken earlier had obviously arrived.
, The Sound of Murder (1986)Yet at the same time, Bush officials are fearful of the mob currently besieging Haiti's cities.
Spiked (2004)It's an American game, developed in Chicago during the Depression, which possibly tainted it with rumoured mob connections.
Globe and Mail (2003)The curry mob : Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather is to be remade in Bollywood.
Glasgow Herald (2001)One moment they were a formed battalion and the next they were a mob.
, Sharpe's Waterloo (1991)