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mob¹
- /mɒb/ UK
- /mɑb/ US
Rhymes with -ɒb
Where it comes from
From Middle English mob, short for mobile, from Latin mōbile (vulgus) (“fickle (crowd)”).
noun mobs
- 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.
- The lower classes of a community; the rabble. A cluster of mob, who were making themselves merry with their betters.
- A group of animals of any kind. Well behind the fire were the pack-saddles and a dark mob of feeding horses[.]
- A group of kangaroos. The leader of a mob of kangaroos is the strongest and usually the largest male in the group.
- A group of any marsupial. There must be a whole mob of wombats living in here!
- A group of emus. Without a second's delay another great rushing comes nearer. "By Jove! a mob of emus," says the old hunter.
- 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.
- 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 mobs · mobbing · mobbed
- To crowd around (someone), sometimes with hostility. The fans mobbed a well-dressed couple who resembled their idols.
- To crowd into or around a place. The shoppers mobbed the store on the first day of the sale.
mob²
- /mɒb/ UK
- /mɑb/ US
Rhymes with -ɒb
Where it comes from
Alteration of mab.
noun mobs
- A promiscuous woman; a harlot or wench; a prostitute.
- A mob cap. c. 1773-1774, Oliver Goldsmith, letter to Mrs Bunbury cover their faces with mobs
verb mobs · mobbing · mobbed
- To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl.
mob³
- /mɒb/ UK
- /mɑb/ US
Rhymes with -ɒb
Where it comes from
Clipping of mobile. The video-gaming sense is sometimes reported as an abbreviation of man or beast or of mobile object, but these are backronyms.
noun mobs
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Abbreviation of mobile phone
Similar: cell
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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; […]
Similar: mobile
- A background character in general.
Mob⁴
Where it comes from
From the common noun sense, capitalized and used as a proper name.
proper noun the Mob
- 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 unassi
- 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
MOB⁵
interjection
- 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.
adjective
- Initialism of mesio occlusal buccal
- Initialism of missing on blog, the act of abandoning ones blog (or weblog) for an extended period of time.
noun MOBs
- Initialism of mother of the bride
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: rabble, throng, disorderly, rout, moblike, syndicate, gang, pile, pack, ring, jam, riot, rioting, assailant, trash, thief
Translations
Every language
noun group of animals
| Español | rebaño, ganado |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 群れ mure |
| Deutsch | Herde |
| Italiano | branco |
| Ελληνικά | όχλος óchlos |
| Русский | ста́до stádo |
noun unruly group of people
| Español | turba, tropel, germanía, marabunta, caterva, maremágnum |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 暴徒 bōto |
| 中文 | 暴民 bàomín, 烏合之眾 /乌合之众 wūhézhlzhòng |
| Português | multidão, turba |
| Français | troupeau, cohue, foule |
| Deutsch | Pöbel, Meute, Horde, Zusammenrottung |
| Italiano | folla, teppaglia, accozzaglia, schiera, stuolo, branco |
| Ελληνικά | όχλος óchlos, σκυλολόι skylolói |
| Русский | толпа́ tolpá, сброд sbrod, ша́йка šájka, ба́нда bánda |
| עברית | המון hamón |
noun the lower classes of a community
| Español | chusma, gleba, gentuza, bahorrina |
|---|---|
| Português | gentalha |
| Русский | чернь černʹ |
verb to crowd around a person
| Español | rodear, amontonarse alrededor de |
|---|---|
| Ελληνικά | στριμώχνω strimóchno |
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