mob, rabble, rout
(noun) a disorderly crowd of people
gang, pack, ring, mob
(noun) an association of criminals; “police tried to break up the gang”; “a pack of thieves”
syndicate, crime syndicate, mob, family
(noun) a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
throng, mob, pack, pile, jam
(verb) press tightly together or cram; “The crowd packed the auditorium”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
mob (plural mobs)
A large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action.
(collective noun) A group of animals such as horses or cattle.
A flock of emus.
The Mafia, or a similar group that engages in organized crime (preceded by the).
(video games) A non-player character, especially one that exists to be fought or killed to further the progression of the story or game.
(archaic) The lower classes of a community; the rabble.
(Australian Aboriginal) A group of Aboriginal people associated with an extended family group, clan group or wider community group, from a particular place or country.
• (mafia): mafia, Mafia
mob (third-person singular simple present mobs, present participle mobbing, simple past and past participle mobbed)
(transitive) To crowd around (someone), sometimes with hostility.
(transitive) To crowd into or around a place.
mob (plural mobs)
(obsolete) A promiscuous woman; a harlot or wench; a prostitute. [17th-18th c.]
A mob cap.
mob (third-person singular simple present mobs, present participle mobbing, simple past and past participle mobbed)
(transitive) To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl.
Abbreviation of mobile phone.
mob (plural mobs)
mobile phone
• This is most often used in signwriting to match with the other three-letter abbreviations tel (“telephone”) and fax (“facsimile”).
• BMO, BOM, BoM, MBO, OMB
MOB
(nautical) 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.
MOB (not comparable)
(dentistry) Initialism of mesio occlusal buccal.
Initialism of missing on blog, the act of abandoning ones blog (or weblog) for an extended period of time
• BMO, BOM, BoM, MBO, OMB
Source: Wiktionary
Mob, n. Etym: [See Mobcap.]
Definition: A mobcap. Goldsmith.
Mob, v. t.
Definition: To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl. [R.]
Mob, n. Etym: [L. mobile vulgus, the movable common people. See Mobile, n.]
1. 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. Addison.
2. Hence: A throgn; a rabble; esp., an unlawful or riotous assembly; a disorderly crowd. The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease. Pope. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. Madison. Confused by brainless mobs. Tennyson. Mob law, law administered by the mob; lynch law.
– Swell mob, well dressed thieves and swindlers, regarded collectively. [Slang] Dickens.
Mob, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mobbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Mobbing.]
Definition: To crowd about, as a mob, and attack or annoy; as, to mob a house or a person.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
17 November 2024
(noun) asceticism as a form of religious life; usually conducted in a community under a common rule and characterized by celibacy and poverty and obedience
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
