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mob-handed in British Englishadjective, adverb informal in or with a large group of people the police turned up mob-handed Examples of 'mob-handed' in a sentencemob-handed He's a bit timid, and I reckon that seeing me turn up mob-handed might put him off for ever.We turned up mob-handed and worked hard.The equally tearful and mob-handed friends and relatives.They turn up mob-handed in summer, and there's visitor commerce to service them.It's here, though, surely, that being mob-handed can work to sport's advantage.Or perhaps there is another explanation for the extraordinary dilatoriness of the mob-handed investigation.In any sane country police would have arrived mob-handed and booted them into the street.Sometimes the fights would be one on one, but mostly they were all-out, mob-handed rucks.As a result, dozens of innocent journalists were raided by mob-handed cops, their homes ransacked and property seized.Or go mob-handed and move into a watercress farm, built in the days when watercress farming conferred distinction. |