mob — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action.

   Examples

   Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

   See also: Mob (the masses)

2. The lower classes of a community; the rabble.

   Usage

   • Archaic

   Examples

   A cluster of mob, who were making themselves merry with their betters.

3. A group of animals of any kind.

   Usage

   • collective

   Examples

   Well behind the fire were the pack-saddles and a dark mob of feeding horses[.]

4. A group of animals of any kind. A group of kangaroos.

   Usage

   • collective

   Examples

   The leader of a mob of kangaroos is the strongest and usually the largest male in the group.

5. A group of animals of any kind. A group of any marsupial.

   Usage

   • broadly
   • collective

   Examples

   There must be a whole mob of wombats living in here!

   Sex difference in size is so marked, that one familiar with the animals, can easily pick out the males in a mob when some distance away.

6. A group of animals of any kind. A group of emus.

   Usage

   • collective

   Examples

   Without a second's delay another great rushing comes nearer. "By Jove! a mob of emus," says the old hunter.

   In the gated area nearest the barn and the pond, there were goats and sheep, llamas and ponies, and a mob of emus.

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   Not even Wellington's horse rode with greater precipitancy upon Napoleon's troops at Waterloo than Dick advanced upon the mob of emus.

7. A mafia: a group that engages in organized crime.

   Examples

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   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)

8. A group of Aboriginal people associated with an extended family group, clan group or wider community group, from a particular place or country.

   Examples

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   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.

Verb

1. To crowd around (someone), sometimes with hostility.

   Usage

   • Transitive

   Examples

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

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   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.

2. To crowd into or around a place.

   Usage

   • Transitive

   Examples

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

Noun

1. A promiscuous woman; a harlot or wench; a prostitute.

   Usage

   • Obsolete

2. A mob cap.

   Examples

   c. 1773-1774, Oliver Goldsmith, letter to Mrs Bunbury cover their faces with mobs

Verb

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

   Usage

   • Transitive

Noun

1. A creature or non-player character, especially one meant to be fought or killed.

   Synonyms

   mobile

   Examples

   Instead of fighting the mobs myself someone led me around to "help" me level; […]

   You can't win with small, balanced groups. You have to zerg the mob with a high number of players.

2. A background character in general.

   Usage

   • Japanese

Noun

1. a disorderly crowd of people

   Synonyms

   rabblerout

   Broader terms

   crowd

2. a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities

   Synonyms

   syndicatecrime syndicatefamily

   Broader terms

   organized crimeganglandgangdom

3. an association of criminals

   Synonyms

   gangpackring

   Broader terms

   association

   Examples

   police tried to break up the gang

   a pack of thieves

Verb

1. press tightly together or cram

   Synonyms

   throngpackpilejam

   Broader terms

   crowdcrowd together

   Examples

   The crowd packed the auditorium