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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

... and power of the white father who had come from the banks of the Powhatan to those of the Pamunkey to visit his faithful Chickahominies, bringing (beyond doubt) justice in his hand. The deeper tones of the men chimed in, and the mob of naked children, bringing up the rear of the procession, added their shrill voices to the clamor, which, upon the booming in of a drum and the furious shaking of the ...

— Prisoners of Hope - A Tale of Colonial Virginia • Mary Johnston

... Bohemian frontier, while I was still toiling at great inconvenience to myself in the printer's office, in order to provide material for an issue of his paper, when the long-expected storm burst over Dresden. Emergency deputations, nightly mob demonstrations, stormy meetings of the various unions, and all the other signs that precede a swift decision in the streets, manifested themselves. On the 3rd May the demeanour of the crowds moving in our thoroughfares ...

— My Life, Volume I • Richard Wagner

... he was forced to bear his cross. Amid the hooting and insults and threats from the mob, he made the dreadful transit from the place Misere to the place Saint-Jean. The gendarmes were obliged to draw their sabres on the furious mob, which pelted them with stones. One of the officers was wounded, and Joseph ...

— The Two Brothers • Honore de Balzac

... white people blacked up they wanted their money back and were going to tip over the cage, when pa saved the day by making a speech, at the evening performance, to the effect that we were all yellow fever refugees from New Orleans and the mob lit out on the run for the main tent, where they announced that there were four cases of fever in the menagerie tent, and that ...

— Peck's Bad Boy at the Circus • George W. Peck

... from it. For there is the eager crowd, which never fails to flock to such trials, and which the inflammatory eloquence of the advocate has now wrought into a frenzy. Cannot such crowd, think you, furnish a mob to effect by force what every member of the jury had refused to accomplish by falsehood? If the master—if the abhorred "slave-hunter"—should escape from such a crowd with a sound body only, and without his property, he ought, we think, to ...

— Cotton is King and The Pro-Slavery Arguments • Various

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