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Mob

//mɒb// adj, intj, name, noun, verb

Adjective

1
Initialism of mesio occlusal buccal. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
2
Initialism of missing on blog, the act of abandoning ones blog (or weblog) for an extended period of time. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable

Intj

1
Initialism of man overboard, used e.g. on the emergency button of a satellite navigator. By pushing the button the operator stores the coordinates of a man overboard incident for easy access. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Proper Noun

1
The Mafia: any particular mafia, mentioned uniquely within the discussion's established or implicit context, usually and especially the Sicilian–Italian–Italian-American one (especially in American English) but occasionally others (e.g., the Russian one, the Japanese one).
"The campfires provide enough plain old regular visible light to show this sorry affair for what it is: a bunch of demented Boy Scouts, a jamboree without merit badges or hygiene. With the IR supered on top of the visible, she can also see vague, spectral red faces out in the shadows where her unassisted eyes would only see darkness. These new Knight Visions cost her a big wad of her Mob drug-running money. Just the kind of thing Mom had in mind when she insisted Y.T. get a part-time job."
2
The masses, especially the 'great unwashed masses': the general population, or rabble, viewed as one mob of unruly, disorganized people predisposed to violence and malevolence.
"tempted to ascribe Poe's narrators' mentions of the Mob to misanthropy in the author himself"

Noun

1
A large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action.
"Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob."
2
A promiscuous woman; a harlot or wench; a prostitute. obsolete
3
Abbreviation of mobile phone. abbreviation, alt-of
4
Initialism of mother of the bride. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
5
a disorderly crowd of people wordnet

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6
The lower classes of a community; the rabble. archaic
"A cluster of mob, who were making themselves merry with their betters."
7
A mob cap.
"c. 1773-1774, Oliver Goldsmith, letter to Mrs Bunbury cover their faces with mobs"
8
A creature or non-player character, especially one meant to be fought or killed.
"Instead of fighting the mobs myself someone led me around to "help" me level; […]"
9
an association of criminals wordnet
10
A group of animals such as horses or cattle. collective
11
A background character in general. Japanese
12
a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities wordnet
13
A group of kangaroos. collective
14
A group of emus. collective
15
A mafia: a group that engages in organized crime.
"The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face."
16
A group of Aboriginal people associated with an extended family group, clan group or wider community group, from a particular place or country.
"There’s nothing like local knowledge and after thousands of years living here the Noongar mob understand this land better than anyone, so it makes sense for them to tap into the lucrative tourism industry."

Verb

1
To crowd around (someone), sometimes with hostility. transitive
"The fans mobbed a well-dressed couple who resembled their idols."
2
To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl. transitive
3
press tightly together or cram wordnet
4
To crowd into or around a place. transitive
"The shoppers mobbed the store on the first day of the sale."

Etymology 1

From Middle English mob, short for mobile, from Latin mōbile (vulgus) (“fickle (crowd)”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English mob, short for mobile, from Latin mōbile (vulgus) (“fickle (crowd)”).

Etymology 3

Alteration of mab.

Etymology 4

Alteration of mab.

Etymology 5

Clipping of mobile. The video-gaming sense is sometimes reported as an abbreviation of mobile object, but this is a backronym.

Etymology 6

From the common noun sense, capitalized and used as a proper name.

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