mob

[ mob ]

/ mɒb /

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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.

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.

adjective

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

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

verb (used with object), mobbed, mob·bing.

to crowd around noisily, as from curiosity or hostility: Spectators mobbed the courtroom.

to attack in a riotous mob: The crowd mobbed the consulate.

Fox Hunting. to chop (a fox).

Origin of mob

1680–90; short for Latin mōbile vulgus the movable (i.e., changeable, inconstant) common people

OTHER WORDS FROM mob

mob·ber, mob·bist, noun mob·bish, adjective mob·bish·ly, adverb mob·bish·ness, noun

mob·bism, noun un·mobbed, adjective

Words nearby mob

moabite, moabite stone, moai, moan, moat, mob, mob-handed, moba, mobcap, mobcast, mobe

Example sentences from the Web for mobbed

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She was mobbed by paparazzi and testifying under oath for the first time.

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About an hour into the show, Jason Bateman tried to leave early and was mobbed by fans chanting his name in the parking lot.

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Assad was mobbed by supporters as he tried to leave the room.

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The poor fellow was mobbed by the infuriated workmen who saw that their labor was apparently to be taken from them by machinery.

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They were more than once mobbed and their meetings broken up by rowdies.

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 |Various
Even so, you would but have been mobbed for your incorrigible beauty.

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Mr. Guthrie, it seems, was unpopular at Stirling, and was once mobbed there.

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If he had ventured into Sootythorn, he would have been mobbed and pelted, or perhaps lynched.

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British Dictionary definitions for mobbed (1 of 2)

mob

/ (mɒb) /

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 and NZ a flock (of sheep) or a herd (of cattle, esp when droving)

often derogatory the masses

slang a gang of criminals

verb mobs, mobbing or 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)

Derived forms of mob

mobber, noun mobbish, adjective

Word Origin for mob

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

British Dictionary definitions for mobbed (2 of 2)

MOB

abbreviation for

mobile phone

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mob

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verb (used with object), mobbed, mob·bing.

Origin of mob

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noun

verb mobs, mobbing or mobbed (tr)

Derived forms of mob

Word Origin for mob

British Dictionary definitions for mobbed (2 of 2)

abbreviation for

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mob

noun

adjective

verb (used with object), mobbed, mob·bing.

Origin of mob

OTHER WORDS FROM mob

Words nearby mob

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noun

verb mobs, mobbing or mobbed (tr)

Derived forms of mob

Word Origin for mob

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