MOBS

Noun

mobs

plural of mob

Verb

mobs

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mob

Anagrams

• BMOs, BOMs

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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Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.

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