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Definition of “mob

mob (mɒbPronunciation for mob

Definitions

noun

    1. a riotous or disorderly crowd of people; rabble
    2. ((as modifier)  ⇒ mob law mob violence 
  1. often derogatory a group or class of people, animals, or things
  2. Australian New Zealand a flock (of sheep) or a herd (of cattle, esp when droving)
  3. often derogatory the masses
  4. slang a gang of criminals

verb

Word forms: mobs, mobbing, mobbed
(tr)
  1. to attack in a group resembling a mob
  2. to surround, esp in order to acclaim  ⇒ they mobbed the film star 
  3. to crowd into (a building, plaza, etc)
  4. (of a group of animals of a prey species) to harass (a predator)

See also

mobs

Alternative Forms

ˈmobber noun ˈmobbish adjective

Word Origin

C17: shortened from Latin mōbile vulgus the fickle populace; see mobile

MOB

Definitions

abbreviation for

  1. mobile phone

Usage examples

  • The `heavy mob " from New York of which Schneider had spoken earlier had obviously arrived.
    Hinxman, Margaret, 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.
    Cornwell, Bernard, Sharpe's Waterloo (1991)

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