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noun

Mob n. A mobcap.

Mob n.

The lower classes of a community; the populace, or the lowest part of it. "A cluster of mob were making themselves merry with their betters."

Hence: A throng; a rabble; esp., an unlawful or riotous assembly; a disorderly crowd. "The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease." "Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob." "Confused by brainless mobs."

A criminal organization or organized criminal gangs, collectively; the Mafia; the syndicate; as, he was a lawyer for the mob.

Mob law, law administered by the mob; lynch law.

Swell mob, well dressed thieves and swindlers, regarded collectively. (Slang)

verb

Mob v. t. To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl. (R.)

Mob v. t. (past & past part. mobbed; pres. part. mobbing) To crowd about, as a mob, and attack or annoy; as, to mob a house or a person.

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"Mob" Quotes from Famous Books

... the World" cannot understand why there are so many old maids and bachelors in England. He regards the latter as most contemptible, and says the mob should be permitted to halloo after them; boys might play tricks on them with impunity; every well-bred company should laugh at them, and if one of them, when turned sixty, offered to make love, his mistress might spit in his face, or what would ...

— History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2) • Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange

... I got into my sedan-chair and went to Soho Square. A man in court dress cannot walk the streets of London without being pelted with mud by the mob, while the gentleman look on and laugh. All customs must be respected; they are all at once worthy ...

— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

... either side had had frequent occasion to land expeditions to protect the life and property of our citizens, and a frightful massacre of passengers had but lately occurred at the hands of a mongrel mob at Panama. The situation was critical, and for a time it looked as though the United States would be obliged to seize and hold that part of Colombian territory. But time wore on without outbreak on the part of the fiery freemen of that so-called republic, the continued ...

— The Bay State Monthly - Volume 1, Issue 4 - April, 1884 • Various

... lamentations of the people of Samaria, as they beheld their idol smitten down by death in the midst of his surpassing pomp. Even the Jewish hagiographer tells us, with pathetic simplicity, that King Agrippa himself wept at the wailings of the adoring mob. ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 • Various

... eyes of these self-satisfied, almond-eyed Celestials. They would only be too glad of an excuse to mob you or to declare that you had ...

— Blue Jackets - The Log of the Teaser • George Manville Fenn

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