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Definitions for Mobs

[1] a disorderly or riotous crowd of people.
[2] a crowd bent on or engaged in lawless violence.
[3] any group or collection of persons or things.
[4] the common people; the masses; populace or multitude.
[5] a criminal gang, especially one involved in drug trafficking, extortion, etc.
[6] the Mob, Mafia(def 1) .
[7] Sociology . a group of persons stimulating one another to excitement and losing ordinary rational control over their activity.
[8] a flock, herd, or drove of animals: a mob of sheep.
[9] of, relating to, or characteristic of a lawless, irrational, disorderly, or riotous crowd: mob rule; mob instincts.
[10] directed at or reflecting the lowest intellectual level of the common people: mob appeal; the mob mentality.
[11] to crowd around noisily, as from curiosity or hostility: Spectators mobbed the courtroom.
[12] to attack in a riotous mob: The crowd mobbed the consulate.
[13] Fox Hunting . to chop (a fox).
[14] Digital Technology . (in a video game) a hostile nonplayer character that the player may target and fight.
[15] (usually foll by of) great numbers or quantities; lots mobs of people
[16] Australian and NZ a great deal mobs better
[17] a riotous or disorderly crowd of people; rabble (as modifier ) mob law ; mob violence
[18] often derogatory a group or class of people, animals, or things
[19] Australian and NZ a flock (of sheep) or a herd (of cattle, esp when droving)
[20] often derogatory the masses
[21] slang a gang of criminals
[22] to attack in a group resembling a mob
[23] to surround, esp in order to acclaim they mobbed the film star
[24] to crowd into (a building, plaza, etc)
[25] (of a group of animals of a prey species) to harass (a predator)
[26] mobile phone

Words related to Mobs

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Words nearby Mobs

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Origin of Mobs

21980–85; coined by British video-game developer Richard Bartle; shortening of mobile(def 10) (in the sense “a moving sculpture hung from the ceiling”)

Other words from Mobs

mob·ber , mob·bist , noun
mob·bish , adjective
mob·bish·ly , adverb
mob·bish·ness , noun
mob·bism , noun
un·mobbed , adjective

Word origin for Mobs

C17: shortened from Latin mōbile vulgus the fickle populace; see mobile

Synonyms for Mobs

clan, crowd, flock, gang, horde, mass, riot, swarm, throng, troop, assemblage, body, cabal, camp, cattle, circle, class, clique, collection, commonality, company, coterie, crew, crush, drove, gathering, herd, host, jam, lot, masses, multitude, pack, populace, posse, press, proletariat, rabble, riffraff, ring, scum, set, canaille