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mob definition

mob (mäb)

noun

  1. a disorderly and lawless crowd; rabble
  2. any crowd
  3. the masses; common people collectively: a contemptuous term
  4. Informal
    1. a gang of criminals
    2. organized crime, specif. the Mafia (sense )

Etymology: < L mobile (vulgus), movable (crowd)

transitive verb mobbed, mobbing mob′·bing

  1. to crowd around and attack
  2. to crowd around and jostle, annoy, etc., as in curiosity or anger
  3. to fill with many people; throng

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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