us mobpron.
/ˈʌs ˌmɒb/, U.S. /ˈəs ˌmɑb/, Australian English /ˈʌs ˌmɔb/ Australian.
Chiefly in Aboriginal usage: ‘us’; ‘we’.Often indicating solidarity or identification with the speaker's group or community: cf. mob n.2 7.
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1980 B. Sansom Camp at Wallaby Cross 11 ‘All us mob?’ asked Johnson. ‘He got room?’
1991 R. Pybus Community of Thieves 188 ‘Governments come and go,’ he says with a laconic shrug, ‘but us mob, we're still here.’
1995 Koori Mail (Lismore, Austral.) 22 Mar. 7/2 Cuz's keep'n an eye on those tourist eh? Yeah, makin sure there's enough fish for us mob.
2005 Age (Melbourne) 19 Nov. 3/1 ‘They (the Government) are not doing anything. It's us mob who do everything’, says Victor Rostron, a Maningrida local.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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