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Mob : (noun)
1: a disorderly crowd of people [syn: rabble, rout]
2: a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized
criminal activities [syn: syndicate, crime syndicate,
family]
3: an association of criminals; "police tried to break up the
gang"; "a pack of thieves" [syn: gang, pack, ring]
(verb)
1: press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the
auditorium" [syn: throng, pack, pile, jam]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Mob : \Mob\, n. [See Mobcap.]
A mobcap. --Goldsmith.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Mob : \Mob\, v. t.
To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl. [R.]
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Mob : \Mob\, n. [L. mobile vulgus, the movable common people. See
Mobile, n.]
1. The lower classes of a community; the populace, or the
lowest part of it.
A cluster of mob were making themselves merry with
their betters. --Addison.
2. Hence: A throng; a rabble; esp., an unlawful or riotous
assembly; a disorderly crowd.
The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease. --Pope.
Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every
Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.
--Madison.
Confused by brainless mobs. --Tennyson.
Mob law, law administered by the mob; lynch law.
Swell mob, well dressed thieves and swindlers, regarded
collectively. [Slang] --Dickens.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Mob : \Mob\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mobbed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Mobbing.]
To crowd about, as a mob, and attack or annoy; as, to mob a
house or a person.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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