Mob

Noun

 * 1) An unruly group of people.
 * 2) A commonly used collective noun for animals such as horses or cattle.
 * 3) The Mafia, or any such criminal group.
 * 4) * 1986, Paul Chadwick, Concrete: Under the Desert Stars, Dark Horse Books
 * What if it is a mob killing? They can’t hurt me, but…
 * 1)  A non-player character that exists to be fought or killed to further the progression of the story or game.

Derived terms

 * mobber
 * mobbish
 * mobbist


 * mobbism
 * flash mob
 * meal mob

Synonyms

 * mafia, Mafia

Verb

 * 1) To crowd around someone or something.

Noun

 * 1)  A promiscuous woman; a harlot or wench; a prostitute.

Derived terms

 * mob cap

mob


 * 1) mobile phone

Thesaurus
Black Hand, Bund, Cosa Nostra, Rochdale cooperative, a mass of, a world of, age group, alliance, army, assemblage, association, axis, band, battalion, bevy, bloc, body, brigade, bunch, cabal, cadre, camarilla, camp, canaille, carpet, cast, cell, charmed circle, chew out, circle, clan, clique, closed circle, cloud, cluster, clutter, coalition, cohort, cohue, college, combination, combine, common market, company, complement, confederacy, confederation, consumer cooperative, contingent, cooperative, cooperative society, corps, coterie, council, covey, credit union, crew, crowd, crush, customs union, deluge, detachment, detail, division, dregs, economic community, elite, elite group, faction, federation, fleet, flight, flock, flocks, flood, free trade area, galaxy, gang, gangdom, gangland, group, grouping, groupment, hail, heap, herd, hive, horde, host, ignobile vulgus, in-group, ingroup, inner circle, jam, junta, junto, large amount, lash, league, legion, lots, machine, many, many-headed multitude, mass, masses, masses of, mobile vulgus, movement, muchness, multitude, nest, numbers, organized crime, out-group, outfit, pack, panoply, partnership, party, peer group, phalanx, platoon, plurality, political machine, posse, press, proletariat, push, quantities, quite a few, rabble, ragtag and bobtail, rail, rate, regiment, riffraff, ring, rout, row, ruck, salon, scores, scum, set, shoal, society, spate, squad, stable, string, swarm, team, the Mafia, the common herd, the crowd, the great unnumbered, the great unwashed, the herd, the hoi polloi, the horde, the majority, the many, the masses, the mob, the multitude, the rackets, the syndicate, the underworld, throng, tidy sum, trash, tribe, troop, troupe, union, unwashed, we-group, wing, worlds of

Etymology 1
, short for mobile, from mobile:.

Etymology 2
Alteration of mab:.

Etymology 3
of mobile phone.

Pronunciation
[mɒb]

Noun

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 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:


 * Dutch:
 * Greek:, συρφετός


 * Spanish: ,
 * Volapük: kangurem,  jevodem,  bubem


 * Dutch:
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 * Persian: مافیا
 * Spanish:


 * Arabic: مجموعة من الناس الخارجين عن السيطرة
 * Finnish: lauma, väkijoukko


 * French:
 * Hebrew: ערב רב
 * Scots: clanjamphry
 * Turkish: başıbozuk, güruh

Verb

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:


 * Greek: στριμώχνω
 * Spanish:,  de

Anagrams

 * bom, BoM, BOM
 * OMB