mob

[MOB]

A mob is a big, rowdy group of people. You might avoid shopping at the mall right before Christmas because you can't stand the mob of shoppers.

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A mobcap.

Noun
a disorderly crowd of people

Noun
an association of criminals; "police tried to break up the gang"; "a pack of thieves"

Noun
a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities

Verb
press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium"


n.
A mobcap.

v. t.
To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl.

n.
The lower classes of a community; the populace, or the lowest part of it.

n.
A throng; a rabble; esp., an unlawful or riotous assembly; a disorderly crowd.

v. t.
To crowd about, as a mob, and attack or annoy; as, to mob a house or a person.


Mob

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

Mob

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

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.
2. Hence: A throgn; a rabble; esp., an unlawful or riotous assembly; a disorderly crowd.
The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease.
Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.
Confused by brainless mobs.
Mob law, law administered by the mob; lynch law. -- Swell mob, well dressed thieves and swindlers, regarded collectively. [Slang] Dickens.

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.

A mobcap.

To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl.

The lower classes of a community; the populace, or the lowest part of it.

To crowd about, as a mob, and attack or annoy; as, to mob a house or a person.

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Usage Examples

Solitude is strength to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.

But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.

The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.

Religion is the idol of the mob it adores everything it does not understand.

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