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Mob

Mob Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Mob? [n] a disorderly crowd of people [n] an association of criminals; "police tried to break up the gang"; "a pack of thieves" [n] a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities [adj] characteristic of a mob; disorderly or lawless; "mob rule"; "fanned mounting tension into mobbish terrorizing"; "moblike mentality" [v] press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Mob: disorderly \| gang \| jam \| mobbish \| moblike \| pack \| pack \| pile \| rabble \| ring \| rout \| syndicate \| throng Related Terms \| Find terms related to Mob: a mass of \| a world of \| age group \| alliance \| army \| assemblage \| association \| axis \| band \| battalion \| bevy \| Black Hand \| bloc \| body \| brigade \| bunch \| Bund \| cabal \| cadre \| camarilla \| camp \| canaille \| carpet \| cast \| cell \| charmed circle \| chew out \| circle \| clan \| clique \| closed circle \| cloud \| cluster \| clutter \| coalition \| cohort \| cohue \| college \| combination \| combine \| common market \| company \| complement \| confederacy \| confederation \| consumer cooperative \| contingent \| cooperative \| cooperative society \| corps \| Cosa Nostra \| coterie \| council \| covey \| credit union \| crew \| crowd \| crush \| customs union \| deluge \| detachment \| detail \| division \| dregs \| economic community \| elite \| elite group \| faction \| federation \| fleet \| flight \| flock \| flocks \| flood \| free trade area \| galaxy \| gang \| gangdom \| gangland \| group \| grouping \| groupment \| hail \| heap \| herd \| hive \| horde \| host \| ignobile vulgus \| ingroup \| in-group \| inner circle \| jam \| junta \| junto \| large amount \| lash \| league \| legion \| lots \| machine \| many \| many-headed multitude \| mass \| masses \| masses of \| mobile vulgus \| movement \| muchness \| multitude \| nest \| numbers \| organized crime \| outfit \| out-group \| pack \| panoply \| partnership \| party \| peer group \| phalanx \| platoon \| plurality \| political machine \| posse \| press \| proletariat \| push \| quantities \| quite a few \| rabble \| ragtag and bobtail \| rail \| rate \| regiment \| riffraff \| ring \| Rochdale cooperative \| rout \| row \| ruck \| salon \| scores \| scum \| set \| shoal \| society \| spate \| squad \| stable \| string \| swarm \| team \| the common herd \| the crowd \| the great unnumbered \| the great unwashed \| the herd \| the hoi polloi \| the horde \| the Mafia \| the majority \| the many \| the masses \| the mob \| the multitude \| the rackets \| the syndicate \| the underworld \| throng \| tidy sum \| trash \| tribe \| troop \| troupe \| union \| unwashed \| we-group \| wing \| worlds of See Also \| association \| Cosa Nostra \| crowd \| crowd \| crowd together \| gangdom \| gangland \| gangster \| lynch mob \| Maffia \| Mafia \| mobster \| nest \| organized crime \| youth gang Mob In Webster's Dictionary \Mob\, n. [See {Mobcap}.] A mobcap. --Goldsmith. \Mob\, v. t. To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl. [R.] \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\, 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.

Mob Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Mob?

[n] a disorderly crowd of people
[n] an association of criminals; "police tried to break up the gang"; "a pack of thieves"
[n] a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
[adj] characteristic of a mob; disorderly or lawless; "mob rule"; "fanned mounting tension into mobbish terrorizing"; "moblike mentality"
[v] press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium"

Mob In Webster's Dictionary

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


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


\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\, 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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