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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mob
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lynch mob
mob cap
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
angry
▪ An angry mob creates confusion and prevents the smooth running of its hunting sequence.
▪ My first reaction was to scan the angry opposition mob for shotguns, pistols, slingshots, and M-80s.
heavy
▪ He would come back and find the heavy mob were selling Tombstone as holiday homes.
▪ The regulars and the heavy mob from Fleet Street arrived and we just managed to catch the last train to Cambridge.
white
▪ Subsequently, a white mob formed, and fighting broke out.
▪ The National Guard had been removed, and a white mob had gathered at the school to enforce vigilante justice.
▪ Dozens of white mobs prowled the streets.
▪ When the word spread of another crime against white womanhood, a white mob gathered outside the jail.
■ NOUN
cap
▪ He needed only a mob cap and frilly apron to complete the image.
lynch
▪ She had a picture of a Southern lynch mob, a whole group of white men and women.
▪ The eyes of the lynch mob were uncomprehendingly evil.
▪ The lynch mob is gathering outside the Last Chance Saloon.
▪ The crowd was on the point of becoming a lynch mob, but were still linked in a human chain.
▪ Some lynch mob of cuckolded husbands exacting a medieval revenge?
▪ At worse they were a lynch mob.
rule
▪ Unless the growing spirit of the movement could be harnessed coherently, mob rule would replace Unionist minority rule.
▪ Now Bork proposes that mob rule be substituted for the authority of the nine justices.
violence
▪ The Monis government had been guilty of foolish panic, the Marne growers of mob violence.
▪ Tyranny, terror, and mob violence were used to coerce antislavery activists.
▪ After Frankfurt, the cities worst affected by mob violence are Hamburg, Berlin and Munich.
▪ We've got the miners rattling sabres again and there's been mob violence outside that new printing works in Sheffield.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A mob of fans caused millions of pounds worth of damage in the area surrounding the stadium.
▪ A mob of reporters surrounded the quarterback.
▪ In two recent incidents, police fired at mobs of unruly protesters.
▪ The mob set fire to cars and buildings.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It was Shawn Ogg, with the rest of the mob behind him.
▪ My first reaction was to scan the angry opposition mob for shotguns, pistols, slingshots, and M-80s.
▪ No one in the mob was arrested.
▪ On the northwest corner of South and Catherine streets, a small mob had formed again.
▪ This made the local mob angry.
II.verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The star was mobbed at the airport by photographers and reporters.
▪ When we went to Disney World last spring, it was mobbed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A., Aragon, much like a movie star, was mobbed wherever he went.
▪ And the beach is mobbed with others in the same predicament.
▪ Chimpanzees have been observed to indulge in mobbing in certain unusual cases.
▪ During a recent visit he was mobbed by autograph hunters.
▪ Stores all over Paris were mobbed Friday, with huge crowds massing outside stores even before opening time.
▪ The band, who have shot to No. 11 with Drive, say they are sick of being mobbed wherever they go.
▪ The poor bewildered creature was being mobbed by rooks.
▪ Vancouverites have been mobbing his new public library.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mob

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.

Mob

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

Mob

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

Mob

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.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mob

"to attack in a mob," 1709, from mob (n.). Meaning "to form into a mob" is from 1711. Related: Mobbed; mobbing.

mob

1680s, "disorderly part of the population, rabble," slang shortening of mobile, mobility "common people, populace, rabble" (1670s, probably with a conscious play on nobility), from Latin mobile vulgus "fickle common people" (the phrase attested c.1600 in English), from mobile, neuter of mobilis "fickle, movable, mobile" (see mobile (adj.)). In Australia and New Zealand, used without disparagement for "a crowd." Meaning "gang of criminals working together" is from 1839, originally of thieves or pick-pockets; American English sense of "organized crime in general" is from 1927.\n\nThe Mob was not a synonym for the Mafia. It was an alliance of Jews, Italians, and a few Irishmen, some of them brilliant, who organized the supply, and often the production, of liquor during the thirteen years, ten months, and nineteen days of Prohibition. ... Their alliance -- sometimes called the Combination but never the Mafia -- was part of the urgent process of Americanizing crime.

[Pete Hamill, "Why Sinatra Matters," 1998]

\nMob scene "crowded place" first recorded 1922.
Wiktionary
mob

Etymology 1 n. 1 An unruly group of people. 2 A commonly used collective noun for animals such as horses or cattle. 3 The Mafia, or a similar group that engages in organized crime (preceded by ''the''). 4 (lb en video games) A non-player character that exists to be fought or killed to further the progression of the story or game. 5 (lb en archaic) The lower classes of a community; the rabble. 6 (lb en Australian Aboriginal) A cohesive group of people. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To crowd around (someone), often with hostility. 2 (context transitive English) To crowd into or around a place. 3 (context video games English) The act of a player aggroing enemies so they follow them and gather, forming a mob of foes. (rfex) Etymology 2

n. 1 (context obsolete English) A promiscuous woman; a harlot or wench; a prostitute. (17th-18th c.) 2 A mob cap. vb. (context transitive English) To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl. Etymology 3

abbr. mobile phone

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WordNet
mob

  1. v. press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium" [syn: throng, pack, pile, jam]

  2. [also: mobbing, mobbed]

mob

  1. n. a disorderly crowd of people [syn: rabble, rout]

  2. a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities [syn: syndicate, crime syndicate, family]

  3. an association of criminals; "police tried to break up the gang"; "a pack of thieves" [syn: gang, pack, ring]

  4. [also: mobbing, mobbed]

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Wikipedia
Mob

Mob, MOB, or mobbing may refer to:

Mob (slamball team)

The Mob are one of six teams currently competing in SlamBall.

Mob (video gaming)

A mob, mobile, or monster is a computer-controlled non-player character (NPC) in a computer game such as an MMORPG or MUD. Depending on context, every and any such characters in a game may be considered to be a "mob", or usage of the term may be limited to hostile NPCs and/or NPCs vulnerable to attack. Common usage refers to either a single character or a multitude of characters in a group as a mob. In most modern graphical games, "mob" may be used to specifically refer to generic monstrous NPCs that the player is expected to hunt and kill, excluding NPCs that engage in dialog or sell items or who cannot be attacked. "Named mobs" are distinguished by having a proper name rather than being referred to by a general type ("a goblin," "a citizen," etc.). "Dumb mobs" are those capable of no complex behaviors beyond attacking or moving around.

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Usage examples of "mob".

These observations arose out of a motion made by Lord Bathurst, who had been roughly handled by the mob on Friday, for an address praying that his majesty would give immediate orders for prosecuting, in the most effectual manner, the authors, abettors, and instruments of the outrages committed both in the vicinity of the houses of parliament and upon the houses and chapels of the foreign ministers.

Two officers of the United States navy were walking abreast, unguarded and alone, not looking to the right or left, never frowning, never flinching, while the mob screamed in their ears, shook cocked pistols in their faces, cursed, crowded, and gnashed upon them.

Very slowly, in between deep breaths, she had explained to Amy that mobs had taken over Paris, that the king and queen were prisoners, and that Papa and Edouard were very much in danger.

The tales of her Whitechapel origin, and heading mobs wielding bludgeons, are absolutely false, traceable to scandalizing anecdotists like Mr.

I raced among the mob of followers, who grasped at me as if I were their saving god, as I searched desperately for where Asteria might have run among the chaotic defenses.

The boy Calistro was sent to roust out the village victualers while the new arrivals pushed through a gabbling, laughing mob toward an isolated tub where Peopeo Moxmox Burke sat, his long graying hair stringy in the bathhouse vapors and his craggy face atwitch as he suppressed a delighted grin.

The uniform was on fire, and the mob behind fell on the Spartan wounded in the street below the Marine position with clubs and tools and bayoneted rifles.

Armed by now, the shouting prisoners hurled themselves on the English who, falling back before the sobers, gun rammers, muskets and belaying pins wielded by these mud-caked figures, were pressed into a mob so dense as almost to prevent the use of weapons.

Calvin, de Beze, and Chaudieu were mounting the steep steps of the upper town in the midst of a crowd, but the crowd paid not the slightest attention to the men who were unchaining the mobs of other cities and preparing them to ravage France.

The place was mobbed by a taunting throng of tatterdemalion humanity, and four grinning Raktumian knights with naked swords kept the bolder ones from approaching too near the captive monarch.

My mob advisor told me which horses I should play and which bookies to bet with.

If Gareth Bryne was leading their army, it was no mob of farmers and street sweepings with a few Warders for stiffening.

One of the bruisers held off the mob while Lord Bute leapt from his own coach to that of Lord Hardwicke.

The new Britney and Cher, though in their uniforms, jumped right in with the mob, getting in a kick or two and ecstatic when they got cans of pop to shake up.

I feel a most frightful chump now, yes, but who can say whether that will not pass off when I get into a mob of other people in fancy dress.