Mob meaning

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A flock or herd of animals.
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To crowd around and jostle or annoy, especially in anger or excessive enthusiasm.

Eager fans mobbed the popular singer.

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Mother of the bride.
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A large and often disorderly crowd.
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To mob is defined as to crowd into or to fill with a lot of people.

An example of to mob is for hundreds of people to race into a store all at once.

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To crowd around and attack.
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The definition of a mob is a large and often unruly crowd.

An example of a mob is hundreds of people waiting outside of a store to shop on Black Friday.

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An indiscriminate or loosely associated group of things.

A mob of boats in the harbor.

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To crowd into.

Visitors mobbed the fairgrounds.

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A criminal organization, especially the Mafia operating in the United States.
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To crowd around and jostle, annoy, etc., as in curiosity or anger.
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To fill with many people; throng.
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An unruly group of people.
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A commonly used collective noun for animals such as horses or cattle.
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The Mafia, or a similar group that engages in organized crime (preceded by the).
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(video games) A non-player character that exists to be fought or killed to further the progression of the story or game.
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(archaic) The lower classes of a community; the rabble.
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To crowd around (someone), often with hostility.

The fans mobbed a well-dressed couple who resembled their idols.

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To crowd into or around a place.

The shoppers mobbed the store on the first day of the sale.

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(video games) The act of a player aggroing enemies so they follow them and gather, forming a mob of foes.
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A mob cap.

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To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl.
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Mobile phone.
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A disorderly and lawless crowd; rabble.
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Any crowd.
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The masses; common people collectively.
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The mass of common people; the populace.
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Origin of mob

  • Short for mobile from Latin mōbile (vulgus) fickle (crowd) neuter of mōbilis mobile
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • Middle English, short for mobile, from Latin mōbile (vulgus) (“fickle (crowd)"). The video-gaming sense originates from English mobile, used by Richard Bartle for objects capable of movement in an early MUD.
    From Wiktionary
  • Abbreviation of mobile phone.
    From Wiktionary
  • Alteration of mab.
    From Wiktionary

Mob Sentence Examples

  • His rule was always to look a mob in the face.

  • He was killed by a mob in a jail at Carthage, Illinois, on the 27th of June 1844.

  • He had constant encounters with the mob, but his tact and courage never failed.

  • "The mob is terrible--disgusting," he said to himself in French.

  • He, however, protected the royal family against the violence of the mob and, on the 7th of August, even attempted to bring about a reconciliation, but his efforts were frustrated by Marie Antoinette.

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