mob
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English mob, short for mobile, from Latin mōbile (vulgus) (“fickle (crowd)”).
Inflected forms:
form: mobs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mobs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mobbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mobbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mobbed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action.
pos: noun
examples: Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.
See also: Mob (the masses)
gloss: The lower classes of a community; the rabble.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: A cluster of mob, who were making themselves merry with their betters.
gloss: A group of animals such as horses or cattle.
pos: noun
tags: collective
examples: Well behind the fire were the pack-saddles and a dark mob of feeding horses[.]
gloss: (collective) A group of kangaroos.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
gloss: (collective) A group of emus.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
gloss: A mafia: a group that engages in organized crime.
pos: noun
examples: The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
The Greeks, displaying a characteristic often a mark of defeated armies, pursued a 'scorched earth' policy toward western Anatolia... The Turkish population was subjected to horrible atrocities by the retreating troops and accompanying civilian Christian mobs.
What if it is a mob killing? They can’t hurt me, but …
See also: Mob, Mafia (proper noun senses for specific ones)
gloss: A group of Aboriginal people associated with an extended family group, clan group or wider community group, from a particular place or country.
pos: noun
examples: There’s nothing like local knowledge and after thousands of years living here the Noongar mob understand this land better than anyone, so it makes sense for them to tap into the lucrative tourism industry.
There’s a saying among blak mob, ‘It doesn’t matter how much milk you put in tea, it’s still tea.’ I am a descendant of genocide survivors, a child of the oldest living culture on Earth. Nothing, no amount of milk, can change that.
gloss: To crowd around (someone), sometimes with hostility.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The fans mobbed a well-dressed couple who resembled their idols.
Politicians have been turning up to Glastonbury for years, but this year the leader of the opposition was among the most hotly anticipated attractions: when he arrived on site, his Land Rover was mobbed by fans.
gloss: To crowd into or around a place.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The shoppers mobbed the store on the first day of the sale.
Derived words: angry mob
antimob
cybermob
flashmob
flash mob
gopher mob
heavy mob
King Mob
lynch mob
meal mob
mobber
mobbish
mobbism
mobbist
mob-handed
mob handed
mob-handedly
mob-handedness
mob law
moble
moblike
mob mentality
mobmobile
mobocracy
mobocrat
mob programming
mobproof
mob rule
mobsman
mobster
mob stocking
Mobtown
mob wife
rent-a-mob
smart mob
swell mob
trash mob
Twittermob
vote mob
woke mob
mob up
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