An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
MOBBED
MOB
throng, mob, pack, pile, jam
(verb) press tightly together or cram; “The crowd packed the auditorium”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
mobbed
simple past tense and past participle of mob
Adjective
mobbed (comparative more mobbed, superlative most mobbed)
Crowded
Anagrams
• bombed
Source: Wiktionary
MOB
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
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