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mob

Audio Help [mob] Pronunciation Key noun, adjective, verb, mobbed, mob·bing.

–noun

1.	a disorderly or riotous crowd of people.

2.	a crowd bent on or engaged in lawless violence.

3.	any group or collection of persons or things.

4.	the common people; the masses; populace or multitude.

5.	a criminal gang, esp. one involved in drug trafficking, extortion, etc.

6.	the Mob, Mafia (def. 1).

7.	Sociology. a group of persons stimulating one another to excitement and losing ordinary rational control over their activity.

8.	a flock, herd, or drove of animals: a mob of sheep.

–adjective

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

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

–verb (used with object)

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

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

13.	Fox Hunting. to chop (a fox).

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

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—Related forms

mobber, mobbist, noun

mobbish, adjective

mob·bish·ly, adverb

mob·bish·ness, noun

mobbism, noun

Thesaurus Entries (5 more entries. View all »)

	Synonym Collection v1.1	Cite This Source
Main Entry:	mob
Part of Speech:	noun
Synonyms:	canaille, clique, gang, hoi polloi, populace, rabble, riffraff, claque, plebs, rabblerout
Source:	Synonym Collection v1.1 Copyright © 2008 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC.

	Synonym Collection v1.1	Cite This Source
Main Entry:	mob
Part of Speech:	verb
Synonyms:	clique, crowd, drove, flock, gang, gathering, group, herd, multitude, pack, populace, rabble, ring, surround, swarm, syndicate, masses
Source:	Synonym Collection v1.1 Copyright © 2008 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC.

	Roget's II: The New Thesaurus	Cite This Source
Main Entry:	commonalty
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	The common people.
Synonyms:	common, commonality, commoner, crowd, hoi polloi, mass, pleb, plebeian, populace, public, ruck, third estate
Source:	Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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