Definition of mob in English:

mob

nounPlural mobs mɒbmɑb

1A large crowd of people, especially one that is disorderly and intent on causing trouble or violence.
a mob of protesters
Example sentencesExamples
- The three of us tried to act as peacemakers in an unseemly mob and for our troubles we got blackballed from every pub and club in the city centre.
- I feared trouble because the mob was growing restless and violent.
- And tension remains high as many government offices and political party offices are either closed or have been seized by mobs since the violence erupted Monday.
- Crowds and mobs are not completely irrational, but they have their own logic.
- Authorities clamped down on new curfews and brought in the army to quell the violence, but angry mobs have been turning on those trying to keep the peace.
- This capability will provide a means to capture specified individuals, such as those inciting a mob to violence or enemy combatants we seek to take prisoner.
- He is proof that violence is needed to contain violence and that one just man will prevail over the corrupt mob and timorous crowd.
- Instantly the crowd became a mob, screaming, cowering.
- Mary Beth shouted as a mob of girls crowded around Luke.
- Quickly, a crowd gathered and that crowd escalated into a mob even faster.
- Just then a mob of Bolsheviks crowded into the room.
- They stood like a unmoving mob, crowded together, trying to get a better view of him.
- The Police have even been forced to use a megaphone to ask the mobs to disperse.
- Before anybody gets too sentimental about the blessings of music, however, Brown points out that music can also transform crowds into a dangerous mob.
- Instead, a voice-over quoting from telegraph reports briefly mentions some of the mob's racist violence.
- White mob violence against blacks was a deliberate tool used to maintain white supremacy, not to punish crime.
- Second, it shows not a small mob but a huge crowd.
- ‘We used rubber bullets to disperse the mob during a series of violent demonstrations,’ he said.
- Yet the historian does not feel provoked enough to indict him for failing to understand what forces the destructive potential of mobs and crowds.
Synonyms
crowd, horde, multitude, rabble, mass, body, throng
group, host, pack, press, crush, jam, gang, gathering, swarm, assemblage
archaic rout
1. 1.1British informal A group of people in the same place or with something in common.
  he stood out from the rest of the mob with his silver hair and stacked shoes
  Example sentencesExamples
  She may have been the closest we have to an honest politician at the moment but that's by comparison with the rest of the mob and I'm not entirely convinced by her protestations.
  He is a fine batsman but it is his gift for words that distinguishes him from the rest of the mob who play cricket and then write about it.
  Synonyms
  group, set, crowd, lot, circle, coterie, in-crowd, clan, faction, pack, band, ring, fraternity, brotherhood, society, troop, company, team
  informal gang, bunch, lads
  British informal shower
2. 1.2Australian An Aboriginal extended family or community.
  my mob travelled and traded with other people
  the local mob called this spot Gimba, which means good pastures
  Example sentencesExamples
  I know that my mob and my group are expecting me to make decisions which advance our particular needs or interests.
  Birthday parties do appear to be an expression of the organising mob's current standing.
  The book tells, both explicitly and implicitly, of her development as an anthropologist, and her relations with the 'Bulman mob'.
  "You Walmajarri mob are lucky," said Pat, who comes from England.
  A leading Australian novelist once upbraided me about the poet's indecent use of metaphor, as though he felt that my mob was stealing a march on him, poor soul.
  The supervisor, before he left, said, "See that he goes back to his mob".
  Malnutrition was an issue for many children in Jetja Nai Medical Mob.
  Community members were persuaded to attend long and awkward meetings at which cattle station plans were outlined in language which was alien and obscure to the Bulman mob.
  There's three different mobs left that speak the traditional language.
  Moreover, 'mobs' need to be defined situationally, as they wax and wane in size depending on the occasion.
3. 1.3the mob The ordinary people.
  the age-old fear that the mob may organize to destroy the last vestiges of civilized life
  Example sentencesExamples
  There is no mob of the proletariat here to rip you apart.
  They did it because they had a justified fear of the mob.
  Irrational fear of the mob was the reason the Red Cross didn't enter the city.
  Fear of the mob has always been uppermost in the gentry's minds.
  Our founding fathers made this a republic and not a democracy because they feared the mob.
  Here, as elsewhere, the language of the mob and of public opinion have converged: there is no restraint; there are no euphemisms.
  Unfortunately, the mob was more organized that they expected as freshly reloaded guns began to fire at them.
  The very fabric of the city was shaped by the elite's fear of the mob.
  Synonyms
  the common people, the masses, the populace, the public, the multitude, the rank and file, the commonality, the commonalty, the third estate, the plebeians, the proletariat, the peasantry, the crowd
  the hoi polloi, the lower classes, the common herd, the rabble, the riff-raff, the canaille, the great unwashed, the dregs of society, the ragtag (and bobtail), the proles, the plebs
2North American The Mafia or a similar criminal organization.
he gambled at a time when the Mob ran gaming
Example sentencesExamples
- The moments when the Mob catches up with him - where his vices hit him hardest - are the highlights of this film.
- I don't think you'll find anyone here with connections to the Mob.
- If the Mob had tried to build Las Vegas in 1929, in the middle of the Great Depression, the idea never would have gotten off the ground.
- Ruby was a strip club owner, and was said to have connections with the Mob.
- If I hadn't decided it wasn't for me, I might well have ended up in the Mob myself.
- The Mob was making it obvious that I could be next.
- By then he'd raked in uncounted millions of dollars, much of which he shared with partners in the Mob.
- And though Barry has been one of the Mob's more dependable components, he is as capable of playing as wildly, as out of control, as the rest of them.
- The less the Mob conforms to contemporary social values, the greater its chance of survival.
- The ‘Feds’ even break the law to make Mark speak, and the Mob do all they can to keep him quiet.
- Always the notorious red-light district of sports, boxing today is as troubled as it was even in the days when the Mob called the shots.
- Barry thinks selflessness is the Mob's most important quality.
- The Mob could always use an experienced trigger man!
- Even though gangs like this have operated for many years, people do not want to believe that their friends are all a part of the Mob.
- Now, we look ahead to the fifth and final season - hopefully later this year - of the show that has brought us all a little closer look at life in the modern Mob.
- The agency also has been accused of funding con artists and companies linked to the Mob.
- Nobody will date you if they find out you're part of the Mob.
3Australian NZ A flock or herd of animals.
a mob of cattle
Example sentencesExamples
- Well we've got a lovely mob of cattle over here; it's quite a rustic rural scene with the shadows, casting long shadows with the afternoon sun.
- Cattle seem to recognise this, so in a mob of mixed breeds, the yaks generally set the pattern.
- On 8 July 1871 Gason reported that a large mob of cattle had been seen some 300 kilometres north of the station.
- It was what New Zealanders call a mob - not a flock - of sheep.
- One of the first mobs of cattle to be walked down was in 1877, taking about ten weeks.

verbmobbed, mobbing, mobs mɒbmɑb

[with object]

1Crowd round (someone) or into (a place) in an unruly way.
he was mobbed by autograph hunters
Example sentencesExamples
- No self-respecting politician can ever be seen to be alone nowadays, and so whenever there is a camera around, the party leader and candidate are mobbed by pretend voters.
- They mobbed the visitors and grappled with them.
- When she arrived she was mobbed by children and she wanted to do more to help them, but she couldn't stay any longer.
- Though he is frequently mobbed by screaming teenagers desperate for his autograph, he claims he does not feel particularly famous.
- The Prime Minister was treated like the pop star he once sought to be as school pupils mobbed him demanding autographs.
- Anyway, one girl sees me with a lollipop, asks for one and next thing I'm mobbed by dozens of girls after them.
- His focus was on the furniture but he hardly got a chance to look at the stuff on display as ecstatic fans practically mobbed him for autographs.
- Stepping out into the dark humidity of the street we were mobbed by a crowd of kids who had been playing football in the shadows and now smelt profit.
- After he and his wife voted, well, he was mobbed by a pack of reporters, local, national, international, and entertainment reporters following his every move.
- And even though she was mobbed and jostled, she maintained her cool.
- Nearby, a crowd mobbed a man on a pay phone, screaming at him to get off the phone so that they could call relatives.
- Even before she got out of the airport, she was literally mobbed by the crowd, which included airport staff.
- He is mobbed by fans wherever he goes, but even so he doesn't enjoy the same level of musical success he once did or the same level of public support.
- I was mobbed by them for autographs outside the stadium and it made the hairs on my neck stand up when they sung my name.
- This was an extremely emotional event for many Bulgarians, and he was mobbed by the crowds.
- He was mobbed by both students and adults, crowding around him for autographs and nearly missed his flight.
- His speeches repeatedly brought the delegates to their feet, cheering and mobbing him for photos and autographs.
- ‘People came up and asked him for his autograph and when he went out he was mobbed by people who were convinced it was him,’ recalls Giovanni.
Synonyms
surround, swarm around, besiege, jostle
harass, set upon, fall on, worry
crowd (into), cram full, fill to overflowing, fill, pack, throng, press into, squeeze into
1. 1.1 (of a group of birds or mammals) surround and attack (a predator or other source of threat) in order to drive it off.
  a cuckoo flew over, to be mobbed at once by two reed warblers
  small mammals may indulge in mobbing to rid themselves of a feared killer
  Example sentencesExamples
  Pishing, the use of certain sibilant sounds to attract hidden birds, works because it triggers the level of hostile curiosity that presages mobbing.
  Small songbirds often mob them, and imitating the call of a Northern Pygmy-Owl will often bring songbirds close in for observation.
  It will pick out one bird from a flock and give chase, indifferent to the calls and mobbing flights of other birds.
  After a bit, one of them flew up, circled round, splashed into the water and flew off with a fish, getting mobbed by Lapwings.
  Swans competing for territory, herons being mobbed by crows and ducklings jumping for flies.
  Spectacular aerial demonstrations, often in the form of group mobbing by several adults, are accompanied by intense and prolonged shrieking.
  Overhead, a mewing cry announced the passing of a white-tailed sea eagle, which was being mobbed by agitated gulls.
  Such an effect could be extended to mobbing birds.
  Swifts will often mob aerial predators such as raptors if they approach a flock.
  I've heard that when young birds leave the nest, parents will mob a lot more actively almost to show what is danger and what isn't.
  It soon attracts the attention of the local corvine tribe and is mobbed by rooks and jackdaws.
  Red-collared Widowbird females are unable to displace the shrikes, and no physical attacks or mobbing behavior was ever observed.
  Of 419 mobbing events, 87% were performed by a territory holder whose nests or fledglings were threatened.
  Adult terns come over to mob the predator while the chicks take cover in the high grass or in their nests.
  They are immediately mobbed by the group and may escape to fly away and sing again another day, but sometimes they are killed.
  A few brave souls were feeding them bags of seed or bread scraps, and were being so mobbed by pigeons that I was actually a bit worried for them.
  They will also mob predators in flight, gathering into tight flocks and dive-bombing a hawk or other predator.
  Defense includes sentry birds alerting the flock to danger, as well as mobbing, in which several crows surround a potential predator and call out a forceful alarm.
  I leave you with one of the best passages of a description of a flock of blue jays mobbing a screech owl.

Derivatives

mobber

noun

I tried to walk at different paces to the mobbers around me so I wasn't saying hello to the same people all the time.
Example sentencesExamples
- To evaluate effect of eyespots on mobbing intensity, we tested mobbing duration and number of individuals over the entire assemblage of mobbers.
- The mobbers sought to terrorize the laundrymen inside those besieged locales.
- One of the mobbers stumbled in front of the Ford.
- More impressive than the successful planning and timing, though, was the number of participants: there must have been three hundred mobbers present.

Origin

Late 17th century: abbreviation of archaic mobile, short for Latin mobile vulgus 'excitable crowd'.

Rhymes

blob, bob, cob, dob, fob, glob, gob, hob, job, lob, nob, rob, slob, snob, sob, squab, stob, swab, throb, yob

Definition of mob in US English:

mob

nounmɑbmäb

1A large crowd of people, especially one that is disorderly and intent on causing trouble or violence.
a mob of protesters
Example sentencesExamples
- And tension remains high as many government offices and political party offices are either closed or have been seized by mobs since the violence erupted Monday.
- Authorities clamped down on new curfews and brought in the army to quell the violence, but angry mobs have been turning on those trying to keep the peace.
- Instantly the crowd became a mob, screaming, cowering.
- I feared trouble because the mob was growing restless and violent.
- Instead, a voice-over quoting from telegraph reports briefly mentions some of the mob's racist violence.
- ‘We used rubber bullets to disperse the mob during a series of violent demonstrations,’ he said.
- This capability will provide a means to capture specified individuals, such as those inciting a mob to violence or enemy combatants we seek to take prisoner.
- Crowds and mobs are not completely irrational, but they have their own logic.
- White mob violence against blacks was a deliberate tool used to maintain white supremacy, not to punish crime.
- Just then a mob of Bolsheviks crowded into the room.
- Before anybody gets too sentimental about the blessings of music, however, Brown points out that music can also transform crowds into a dangerous mob.
- He is proof that violence is needed to contain violence and that one just man will prevail over the corrupt mob and timorous crowd.
- Second, it shows not a small mob but a huge crowd.
- Yet the historian does not feel provoked enough to indict him for failing to understand what forces the destructive potential of mobs and crowds.
- The Police have even been forced to use a megaphone to ask the mobs to disperse.
- They stood like a unmoving mob, crowded together, trying to get a better view of him.
- Quickly, a crowd gathered and that crowd escalated into a mob even faster.
- Mary Beth shouted as a mob of girls crowded around Luke.
- The three of us tried to act as peacemakers in an unseemly mob and for our troubles we got blackballed from every pub and club in the city centre.
Synonyms
crowd, horde, multitude, rabble, mass, body, throng
1. 1.1usually the MobNorth American The Mafia or a similar criminal organization.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Ruby was a strip club owner, and was said to have connections with the Mob.
  The Mob was making it obvious that I could be next.
  The agency also has been accused of funding con artists and companies linked to the Mob.
  The less the Mob conforms to contemporary social values, the greater its chance of survival.
  If the Mob had tried to build Las Vegas in 1929, in the middle of the Great Depression, the idea never would have gotten off the ground.
  If I hadn't decided it wasn't for me, I might well have ended up in the Mob myself.
  The ‘Feds’ even break the law to make Mark speak, and the Mob do all they can to keep him quiet.
  Barry thinks selflessness is the Mob's most important quality.
  I don't think you'll find anyone here with connections to the Mob.
  By then he'd raked in uncounted millions of dollars, much of which he shared with partners in the Mob.
  Now, we look ahead to the fifth and final season - hopefully later this year - of the show that has brought us all a little closer look at life in the modern Mob.
  The Mob could always use an experienced trigger man!
  Always the notorious red-light district of sports, boxing today is as troubled as it was even in the days when the Mob called the shots.
  Nobody will date you if they find out you're part of the Mob.
  The moments when the Mob catches up with him - where his vices hit him hardest - are the highlights of this film.
  And though Barry has been one of the Mob's more dependable components, he is as capable of playing as wildly, as out of control, as the rest of them.
  Even though gangs like this have operated for many years, people do not want to believe that their friends are all a part of the Mob.
2. 1.2the mob The ordinary people.
  the age-old fear that the mob may organize to destroy the last vestiges of civilized life
  Example sentencesExamples
  Irrational fear of the mob was the reason the Red Cross didn't enter the city.
  There is no mob of the proletariat here to rip you apart.
  Our founding fathers made this a republic and not a democracy because they feared the mob.
  Here, as elsewhere, the language of the mob and of public opinion have converged: there is no restraint; there are no euphemisms.
  The very fabric of the city was shaped by the elite's fear of the mob.
  Fear of the mob has always been uppermost in the gentry's minds.
  Unfortunately, the mob was more organized that they expected as freshly reloaded guns began to fire at them.
  They did it because they had a justified fear of the mob.
  Synonyms
  the common people, the masses, the populace, the public, the multitude, the rank and file, the commonality, the commonalty, the third estate, the plebeians, the proletariat, the peasantry, the crowd

verbmɑbmäb

[with object]

1Crowd around (someone) in an unruly and excitable way in order to admire or attack them.
he was mobbed by autograph hunters
Example sentencesExamples
- The Prime Minister was treated like the pop star he once sought to be as school pupils mobbed him demanding autographs.
- And even though she was mobbed and jostled, she maintained her cool.
- Though he is frequently mobbed by screaming teenagers desperate for his autograph, he claims he does not feel particularly famous.
- He was mobbed by both students and adults, crowding around him for autographs and nearly missed his flight.
- When she arrived she was mobbed by children and she wanted to do more to help them, but she couldn't stay any longer.
- He is mobbed by fans wherever he goes, but even so he doesn't enjoy the same level of musical success he once did or the same level of public support.
- His speeches repeatedly brought the delegates to their feet, cheering and mobbing him for photos and autographs.
- This was an extremely emotional event for many Bulgarians, and he was mobbed by the crowds.
- They mobbed the visitors and grappled with them.
- Anyway, one girl sees me with a lollipop, asks for one and next thing I'm mobbed by dozens of girls after them.
- Even before she got out of the airport, she was literally mobbed by the crowd, which included airport staff.
- His focus was on the furniture but he hardly got a chance to look at the stuff on display as ecstatic fans practically mobbed him for autographs.
- I was mobbed by them for autographs outside the stadium and it made the hairs on my neck stand up when they sung my name.
- No self-respecting politician can ever be seen to be alone nowadays, and so whenever there is a camera around, the party leader and candidate are mobbed by pretend voters.
- ‘People came up and asked him for his autograph and when he went out he was mobbed by people who were convinced it was him,’ recalls Giovanni.
- Nearby, a crowd mobbed a man on a pay phone, screaming at him to get off the phone so that they could call relatives.
- Stepping out into the dark humidity of the street we were mobbed by a crowd of kids who had been playing football in the shadows and now smelt profit.
- After he and his wife voted, well, he was mobbed by a pack of reporters, local, national, international, and entertainment reporters following his every move.
Synonyms
surround, swarm around, besiege, jostle
crowd, crowd into, cram full, fill to overflowing, fill, pack, throng, press into, squeeze into
1. 1.1 (of a group of birds or mammals) surround and attack (a predator or other source of threat) in order to drive it off.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Adult terns come over to mob the predator while the chicks take cover in the high grass or in their nests.
  They will also mob predators in flight, gathering into tight flocks and dive-bombing a hawk or other predator.
  Such an effect could be extended to mobbing birds.
  Overhead, a mewing cry announced the passing of a white-tailed sea eagle, which was being mobbed by agitated gulls.
  It will pick out one bird from a flock and give chase, indifferent to the calls and mobbing flights of other birds.
  I've heard that when young birds leave the nest, parents will mob a lot more actively almost to show what is danger and what isn't.
  It soon attracts the attention of the local corvine tribe and is mobbed by rooks and jackdaws.
  Swifts will often mob aerial predators such as raptors if they approach a flock.
  Swans competing for territory, herons being mobbed by crows and ducklings jumping for flies.
  Red-collared Widowbird females are unable to displace the shrikes, and no physical attacks or mobbing behavior was ever observed.
  Spectacular aerial demonstrations, often in the form of group mobbing by several adults, are accompanied by intense and prolonged shrieking.
  They are immediately mobbed by the group and may escape to fly away and sing again another day, but sometimes they are killed.
  Of 419 mobbing events, 87% were performed by a territory holder whose nests or fledglings were threatened.
  Small songbirds often mob them, and imitating the call of a Northern Pygmy-Owl will often bring songbirds close in for observation.
  I leave you with one of the best passages of a description of a flock of blue jays mobbing a screech owl.
  Pishing, the use of certain sibilant sounds to attract hidden birds, works because it triggers the level of hostile curiosity that presages mobbing.
  After a bit, one of them flew up, circled round, splashed into the water and flew off with a fish, getting mobbed by Lapwings.
  Defense includes sentry birds alerting the flock to danger, as well as mobbing, in which several crows surround a potential predator and call out a forceful alarm.
  A few brave souls were feeding them bags of seed or bread scraps, and were being so mobbed by pigeons that I was actually a bit worried for them.
2. 1.2 Crowd into (a building or place)
  an unruly crowd mobbed the White House during an inaugural reception

Origin

Late 17th century: abbreviation of archaic mobile, short for Latin mobile vulgus ‘excitable crowd’.

单词	mob
释义	Definition of mob in English: mob nounPlural mobs mɒbmɑb 1A large crowd of people, especially one that is disorderly and intent on causing trouble or violence. a mob of protesters Example sentencesExamples The three of us tried to act as peacemakers in an unseemly mob and for our troubles we got blackballed from every pub and club in the city centre. I feared trouble because the mob was growing restless and violent. And tension remains high as many government offices and political party offices are either closed or have been seized by mobs since the violence erupted Monday. Crowds and mobs are not completely irrational, but they have their own logic. Authorities clamped down on new curfews and brought in the army to quell the violence, but angry mobs have been turning on those trying to keep the peace. This capability will provide a means to capture specified individuals, such as those inciting a mob to violence or enemy combatants we seek to take prisoner. He is proof that violence is needed to contain violence and that one just man will prevail over the corrupt mob and timorous crowd. Instantly the crowd became a mob, screaming, cowering. Mary Beth shouted as a mob of girls crowded around Luke. Quickly, a crowd gathered and that crowd escalated into a mob even faster. Just then a mob of Bolsheviks crowded into the room. They stood like a unmoving mob, crowded together, trying to get a better view of him. The Police have even been forced to use a megaphone to ask the mobs to disperse. Before anybody gets too sentimental about the blessings of music, however, Brown points out that music can also transform crowds into a dangerous mob. Instead, a voice-over quoting from telegraph reports briefly mentions some of the mob's racist violence. White mob violence against blacks was a deliberate tool used to maintain white supremacy, not to punish crime. Second, it shows not a small mob but a huge crowd. ‘We used rubber bullets to disperse the mob during a series of violent demonstrations,’ he said. Yet the historian does not feel provoked enough to indict him for failing to understand what forces the destructive potential of mobs and crowds. Synonyms crowd, horde, multitude, rabble, mass, body, throng group, host, pack, press, crush, jam, gang, gathering, swarm, assemblage archaic rout 1.1British informal A group of people in the same place or with something in common. he stood out from the rest of the mob with his silver hair and stacked shoes Example sentencesExamples She may have been the closest we have to an honest politician at the moment but that's by comparison with the rest of the mob and I'm not entirely convinced by her protestations. He is a fine batsman but it is his gift for words that distinguishes him from the rest of the mob who play cricket and then write about it. Synonyms group, set, crowd, lot, circle, coterie, in-crowd, clan, faction, pack, band, ring, fraternity, brotherhood, society, troop, company, team informal gang, bunch, lads British informal shower 1.2Australian An Aboriginal extended family or community. my mob travelled and traded with other people the local mob called this spot Gimba, which means good pastures Example sentencesExamples I know that my mob and my group are expecting me to make decisions which advance our particular needs or interests. Birthday parties do appear to be an expression of the organising mob's current standing. The book tells, both explicitly and implicitly, of her development as an anthropologist, and her relations with the 'Bulman mob'. "You Walmajarri mob are lucky," said Pat, who comes from England. A leading Australian novelist once upbraided me about the poet's indecent use of metaphor, as though he felt that my mob was stealing a march on him, poor soul. The supervisor, before he left, said, "See that he goes back to his mob". Malnutrition was an issue for many children in Jetja Nai Medical Mob. Community members were persuaded to attend long and awkward meetings at which cattle station plans were outlined in language which was alien and obscure to the Bulman mob. There's three different mobs left that speak the traditional language. Moreover, 'mobs' need to be defined situationally, as they wax and wane in size depending on the occasion. 1.3the mob The ordinary people. the age-old fear that the mob may organize to destroy the last vestiges of civilized life Example sentencesExamples There is no mob of the proletariat here to rip you apart. They did it because they had a justified fear of the mob. Irrational fear of the mob was the reason the Red Cross didn't enter the city. Fear of the mob has always been uppermost in the gentry's minds. Our founding fathers made this a republic and not a democracy because they feared the mob. Here, as elsewhere, the language of the mob and of public opinion have converged: there is no restraint; there are no euphemisms. Unfortunately, the mob was more organized that they expected as freshly reloaded guns began to fire at them. The very fabric of the city was shaped by the elite's fear of the mob. Synonyms the common people, the masses, the populace, the public, the multitude, the rank and file, the commonality, the commonalty, the third estate, the plebeians, the proletariat, the peasantry, the crowd the hoi polloi, the lower classes, the common herd, the rabble, the riff-raff, the canaille, the great unwashed, the dregs of society, the ragtag (and bobtail), the proles, the plebs 2North American The Mafia or a similar criminal organization. he gambled at a time when the Mob ran gaming Example sentencesExamples The moments when the Mob catches up with him - where his vices hit him hardest - are the highlights of this film. I don't think you'll find anyone here with connections to the Mob. If the Mob had tried to build Las Vegas in 1929, in the middle of the Great Depression, the idea never would have gotten off the ground. Ruby was a strip club owner, and was said to have connections with the Mob. If I hadn't decided it wasn't for me, I might well have ended up in the Mob myself. The Mob was making it obvious that I could be next. By then he'd raked in uncounted millions of dollars, much of which he shared with partners in the Mob. And though Barry has been one of the Mob's more dependable components, he is as capable of playing as wildly, as out of control, as the rest of them. The less the Mob conforms to contemporary social values, the greater its chance of survival. The ‘Feds’ even break the law to make Mark speak, and the Mob do all they can to keep him quiet. Always the notorious red-light district of sports, boxing today is as troubled as it was even in the days when the Mob called the shots. Barry thinks selflessness is the Mob's most important quality. The Mob could always use an experienced trigger man! Even though gangs like this have operated for many years, people do not want to believe that their friends are all a part of the Mob. Now, we look ahead to the fifth and final season - hopefully later this year - of the show that has brought us all a little closer look at life in the modern Mob. The agency also has been accused of funding con artists and companies linked to the Mob. Nobody will date you if they find out you're part of the Mob. 3Australian NZ A flock or herd of animals. a mob of cattle Example sentencesExamples Well we've got a lovely mob of cattle over here; it's quite a rustic rural scene with the shadows, casting long shadows with the afternoon sun. Cattle seem to recognise this, so in a mob of mixed breeds, the yaks generally set the pattern. On 8 July 1871 Gason reported that a large mob of cattle had been seen some 300 kilometres north of the station. It was what New Zealanders call a mob - not a flock - of sheep. One of the first mobs of cattle to be walked down was in 1877, taking about ten weeks. verbmobbed, mobbing, mobs mɒbmɑb [with object] 1Crowd round (someone) or into (a place) in an unruly way. he was mobbed by autograph hunters Example sentencesExamples No self-respecting politician can ever be seen to be alone nowadays, and so whenever there is a camera around, the party leader and candidate are mobbed by pretend voters. They mobbed the visitors and grappled with them. When she arrived she was mobbed by children and she wanted to do more to help them, but she couldn't stay any longer. Though he is frequently mobbed by screaming teenagers desperate for his autograph, he claims he does not feel particularly famous. The Prime Minister was treated like the pop star he once sought to be as school pupils mobbed him demanding autographs. Anyway, one girl sees me with a lollipop, asks for one and next thing I'm mobbed by dozens of girls after them. His focus was on the furniture but he hardly got a chance to look at the stuff on display as ecstatic fans practically mobbed him for autographs. Stepping out into the dark humidity of the street we were mobbed by a crowd of kids who had been playing football in the shadows and now smelt profit. After he and his wife voted, well, he was mobbed by a pack of reporters, local, national, international, and entertainment reporters following his every move. And even though she was mobbed and jostled, she maintained her cool. Nearby, a crowd mobbed a man on a pay phone, screaming at him to get off the phone so that they could call relatives. Even before she got out of the airport, she was literally mobbed by the crowd, which included airport staff. He is mobbed by fans wherever he goes, but even so he doesn't enjoy the same level of musical success he once did or the same level of public support. I was mobbed by them for autographs outside the stadium and it made the hairs on my neck stand up when they sung my name. This was an extremely emotional event for many Bulgarians, and he was mobbed by the crowds. He was mobbed by both students and adults, crowding around him for autographs and nearly missed his flight. His speeches repeatedly brought the delegates to their feet, cheering and mobbing him for photos and autographs. ‘People came up and asked him for his autograph and when he went out he was mobbed by people who were convinced it was him,’ recalls Giovanni. Synonyms surround, swarm around, besiege, jostle harass, set upon, fall on, worry crowd (into), cram full, fill to overflowing, fill, pack, throng, press into, squeeze into 1.1 (of a group of birds or mammals) surround and attack (a predator or other source of threat) in order to drive it off. a cuckoo flew over, to be mobbed at once by two reed warblers small mammals may indulge in mobbing to rid themselves of a feared killer Example sentencesExamples Pishing, the use of certain sibilant sounds to attract hidden birds, works because it triggers the level of hostile curiosity that presages mobbing. Small songbirds often mob them, and imitating the call of a Northern Pygmy-Owl will often bring songbirds close in for observation. It will pick out one bird from a flock and give chase, indifferent to the calls and mobbing flights of other birds. After a bit, one of them flew up, circled round, splashed into the water and flew off with a fish, getting mobbed by Lapwings. Swans competing for territory, herons being mobbed by crows and ducklings jumping for flies. Spectacular aerial demonstrations, often in the form of group mobbing by several adults, are accompanied by intense and prolonged shrieking. Overhead, a mewing cry announced the passing of a white-tailed sea eagle, which was being mobbed by agitated gulls. Such an effect could be extended to mobbing birds. Swifts will often mob aerial predators such as raptors if they approach a flock. I've heard that when young birds leave the nest, parents will mob a lot more actively almost to show what is danger and what isn't. It soon attracts the attention of the local corvine tribe and is mobbed by rooks and jackdaws. Red-collared Widowbird females are unable to displace the shrikes, and no physical attacks or mobbing behavior was ever observed. Of 419 mobbing events, 87% were performed by a territory holder whose nests or fledglings were threatened. Adult terns come over to mob the predator while the chicks take cover in the high grass or in their nests. They are immediately mobbed by the group and may escape to fly away and sing again another day, but sometimes they are killed. A few brave souls were feeding them bags of seed or bread scraps, and were being so mobbed by pigeons that I was actually a bit worried for them. They will also mob predators in flight, gathering into tight flocks and dive-bombing a hawk or other predator. Defense includes sentry birds alerting the flock to danger, as well as mobbing, in which several crows surround a potential predator and call out a forceful alarm. I leave you with one of the best passages of a description of a flock of blue jays mobbing a screech owl. Derivatives mobber noun I tried to walk at different paces to the mobbers around me so I wasn't saying hello to the same people all the time. Example sentencesExamples To evaluate effect of eyespots on mobbing intensity, we tested mobbing duration and number of individuals over the entire assemblage of mobbers. The mobbers sought to terrorize the laundrymen inside those besieged locales. One of the mobbers stumbled in front of the Ford. More impressive than the successful planning and timing, though, was the number of participants: there must have been three hundred mobbers present. Origin Late 17th century: abbreviation of archaic mobile, short for Latin mobile vulgus 'excitable crowd'. Rhymes blob, bob, cob, dob, fob, glob, gob, hob, job, lob, nob, rob, slob, snob, sob, squab, stob, swab, throb, yob Definition of mob in US English: mob nounmɑbmäb 1A large crowd of people, especially one that is disorderly and intent on causing trouble or violence. a mob of protesters Example sentencesExamples And tension remains high as many government offices and political party offices are either closed or have been seized by mobs since the violence erupted Monday. Authorities clamped down on new curfews and brought in the army to quell the violence, but angry mobs have been turning on those trying to keep the peace. Instantly the crowd became a mob, screaming, cowering. I feared trouble because the mob was growing restless and violent. Instead, a voice-over quoting from telegraph reports briefly mentions some of the mob's racist violence. ‘We used rubber bullets to disperse the mob during a series of violent demonstrations,’ he said. This capability will provide a means to capture specified individuals, such as those inciting a mob to violence or enemy combatants we seek to take prisoner. Crowds and mobs are not completely irrational, but they have their own logic. White mob violence against blacks was a deliberate tool used to maintain white supremacy, not to punish crime. Just then a mob of Bolsheviks crowded into the room. Before anybody gets too sentimental about the blessings of music, however, Brown points out that music can also transform crowds into a dangerous mob. He is proof that violence is needed to contain violence and that one just man will prevail over the corrupt mob and timorous crowd. Second, it shows not a small mob but a huge crowd. Yet the historian does not feel provoked enough to indict him for failing to understand what forces the destructive potential of mobs and crowds. The Police have even been forced to use a megaphone to ask the mobs to disperse. They stood like a unmoving mob, crowded together, trying to get a better view of him. Quickly, a crowd gathered and that crowd escalated into a mob even faster. Mary Beth shouted as a mob of girls crowded around Luke. The three of us tried to act as peacemakers in an unseemly mob and for our troubles we got blackballed from every pub and club in the city centre. Synonyms crowd, horde, multitude, rabble, mass, body, throng 1.1usually the MobNorth American The Mafia or a similar criminal organization. Example sentencesExamples Ruby was a strip club owner, and was said to have connections with the Mob. The Mob was making it obvious that I could be next. The agency also has been accused of funding con artists and companies linked to the Mob. The less the Mob conforms to contemporary social values, the greater its chance of survival. If the Mob had tried to build Las Vegas in 1929, in the middle of the Great Depression, the idea never would have gotten off the ground. If I hadn't decided it wasn't for me, I might well have ended up in the Mob myself. The ‘Feds’ even break the law to make Mark speak, and the Mob do all they can to keep him quiet. Barry thinks selflessness is the Mob's most important quality. I don't think you'll find anyone here with connections to the Mob. By then he'd raked in uncounted millions of dollars, much of which he shared with partners in the Mob. Now, we look ahead to the fifth and final season - hopefully later this year - of the show that has brought us all a little closer look at life in the modern Mob. The Mob could always use an experienced trigger man! Always the notorious red-light district of sports, boxing today is as troubled as it was even in the days when the Mob called the shots. Nobody will date you if they find out you're part of the Mob. The moments when the Mob catches up with him - where his vices hit him hardest - are the highlights of this film. And though Barry has been one of the Mob's more dependable components, he is as capable of playing as wildly, as out of control, as the rest of them. Even though gangs like this have operated for many years, people do not want to believe that their friends are all a part of the Mob. 1.2the mob The ordinary people. the age-old fear that the mob may organize to destroy the last vestiges of civilized life Example sentencesExamples Irrational fear of the mob was the reason the Red Cross didn't enter the city. There is no mob of the proletariat here to rip you apart. Our founding fathers made this a republic and not a democracy because they feared the mob. Here, as elsewhere, the language of the mob and of public opinion have converged: there is no restraint; there are no euphemisms. The very fabric of the city was shaped by the elite's fear of the mob. Fear of the mob has always been uppermost in the gentry's minds. Unfortunately, the mob was more organized that they expected as freshly reloaded guns began to fire at them. They did it because they had a justified fear of the mob. Synonyms the common people, the masses, the populace, the public, the multitude, the rank and file, the commonality, the commonalty, the third estate, the plebeians, the proletariat, the peasantry, the crowd verbmɑbmäb [with object] 1Crowd around (someone) in an unruly and excitable way in order to admire or attack them. he was mobbed by autograph hunters Example sentencesExamples The Prime Minister was treated like the pop star he once sought to be as school pupils mobbed him demanding autographs. And even though she was mobbed and jostled, she maintained her cool. Though he is frequently mobbed by screaming teenagers desperate for his autograph, he claims he does not feel particularly famous. He was mobbed by both students and adults, crowding around him for autographs and nearly missed his flight. When she arrived she was mobbed by children and she wanted to do more to help them, but she couldn't stay any longer. He is mobbed by fans wherever he goes, but even so he doesn't enjoy the same level of musical success he once did or the same level of public support. His speeches repeatedly brought the delegates to their feet, cheering and mobbing him for photos and autographs. This was an extremely emotional event for many Bulgarians, and he was mobbed by the crowds. They mobbed the visitors and grappled with them. Anyway, one girl sees me with a lollipop, asks for one and next thing I'm mobbed by dozens of girls after them. Even before she got out of the airport, she was literally mobbed by the crowd, which included airport staff. His focus was on the furniture but he hardly got a chance to look at the stuff on display as ecstatic fans practically mobbed him for autographs. I was mobbed by them for autographs outside the stadium and it made the hairs on my neck stand up when they sung my name. No self-respecting politician can ever be seen to be alone nowadays, and so whenever there is a camera around, the party leader and candidate are mobbed by pretend voters. ‘People came up and asked him for his autograph and when he went out he was mobbed by people who were convinced it was him,’ recalls Giovanni. Nearby, a crowd mobbed a man on a pay phone, screaming at him to get off the phone so that they could call relatives. Stepping out into the dark humidity of the street we were mobbed by a crowd of kids who had been playing football in the shadows and now smelt profit. After he and his wife voted, well, he was mobbed by a pack of reporters, local, national, international, and entertainment reporters following his every move. Synonyms surround, swarm around, besiege, jostle crowd, crowd into, cram full, fill to overflowing, fill, pack, throng, press into, squeeze into 1.1 (of a group of birds or mammals) surround and attack (a predator or other source of threat) in order to drive it off. Example sentencesExamples Adult terns come over to mob the predator while the chicks take cover in the high grass or in their nests. They will also mob predators in flight, gathering into tight flocks and dive-bombing a hawk or other predator. Such an effect could be extended to mobbing birds. Overhead, a mewing cry announced the passing of a white-tailed sea eagle, which was being mobbed by agitated gulls. It will pick out one bird from a flock and give chase, indifferent to the calls and mobbing flights of other birds. I've heard that when young birds leave the nest, parents will mob a lot more actively almost to show what is danger and what isn't. It soon attracts the attention of the local corvine tribe and is mobbed by rooks and jackdaws. Swifts will often mob aerial predators such as raptors if they approach a flock. Swans competing for territory, herons being mobbed by crows and ducklings jumping for flies. Red-collared Widowbird females are unable to displace the shrikes, and no physical attacks or mobbing behavior was ever observed. Spectacular aerial demonstrations, often in the form of group mobbing by several adults, are accompanied by intense and prolonged shrieking. They are immediately mobbed by the group and may escape to fly away and sing again another day, but sometimes they are killed. Of 419 mobbing events, 87% were performed by a territory holder whose nests or fledglings were threatened. Small songbirds often mob them, and imitating the call of a Northern Pygmy-Owl will often bring songbirds close in for observation. I leave you with one of the best passages of a description of a flock of blue jays mobbing a screech owl. Pishing, the use of certain sibilant sounds to attract hidden birds, works because it triggers the level of hostile curiosity that presages mobbing. After a bit, one of them flew up, circled round, splashed into the water and flew off with a fish, getting mobbed by Lapwings. Defense includes sentry birds alerting the flock to danger, as well as mobbing, in which several crows surround a potential predator and call out a forceful alarm. A few brave souls were feeding them bags of seed or bread scraps, and were being so mobbed by pigeons that I was actually a bit worried for them. 1.2 Crowd into (a building or place) an unruly crowd mobbed the White House during an inaugural reception Origin Late 17th century: abbreviation of archaic mobile, short for Latin mobile vulgus ‘excitable crowd’.
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