Meaning

12 senses
  1. A large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action.

    See also: Mob (the masses)

    Pöbel, Meute, Horde

    толпа́tolpá, сбродsbrod, ша́йкаšájka

    a disorderly crowd of people

  2. (collective)A group of animals of any kind.

  3. A group of animals of any kind.

    (collective)A group of kangaroos.

  4. (broadly, collective)A group of any marsupial.

  5. (collective)A group of emus.

  6. A mafia: a group that engages in organized crime.

    See also: Mob, Mafia (proper noun senses for specific ones)

  7. A group of Aboriginal people associated with an extended family group, clan group or wider community group, from a particular place or country.

  8. A mob cap.

    c. 1773-1774, Oliver Goldsmith, letter to Mrs Bunbury cover their faces with mobs

  9. A creature or non-player character, especially one meant to be fought or killed.

  10. (Japanese)A background character in general.

  11. (archaic)The lower classes of a community; the rabble.

    черньčernʹ

  12. (obsolete)A promiscuous woman; a harlot or wench; a prostitute.

Examples

57 sentences
  1. Tom denied any ties to the mob.

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  2. The angry mob started throwing rocks at us.

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  3. Tom was killed by a mob of vigilantes.

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  4. The police could not control the mob.

    ruПолиция не могла контролировать толпу.

    deDie Polizei konnte die Menge nicht unter Kontrolle halten.

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  5. A mob quickly formed.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
group of animals:
unruly group of people:
the lower classes of a community:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
group of animals:
unruly group of people:

Origin

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

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

Alteration of mab.

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.

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Forms

plural: mobs
Singularmob
Pluralmobs

regular

Synonyms

10 synonyms
mafia:mafia
Close in meaning

Word family

33 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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