Meaning of Mob | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The Mafia: any particular mafia, mentioned uniquely within the discussion's established or implicit context, usually and especially the Sicilian–Italian–Italian-American one (especially in American English) but occasionally others (e.g., the Russian one, the Japanese one).
2. A promiscuous woman; a harlot or wench; a prostitute.
   obsolete
3. Abbreviation of mobile phone.
   abbreviation, alt-of
4. A large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action.
5. Initialism of mother of the bride.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
6. The masses, especially the 'great unwashed masses': the general population, or rabble, viewed as one mob of unruly, disorganized people predisposed to violence and malevolence.
7. The lower classes of a community; the rabble.
   archaic
8. A mob cap.
9. A creature or non-player character, especially one meant to be fought or killed.
10. A group of animals such as horses or cattle.
    collective
11. A background character in general.
    Japanese
12. A group of kangaroos.
    collective
13. A group of emus.
    collective
14. A mafia: a group that engages in organized crime.
15. A group of Aboriginal people associated with an extended family group, clan group or wider community group, from a particular place or country.

Equivalents

Examples

“Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.”

“See also: Mob (the masses)”

“A cluster of mob, who were making themselves merry with their betters.”

“The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.”

“The Turkish population was subjected to horrible atrocities by the retreating Greek troops and the Christian mobs, a type of genocide.”

“What if it is a mob killing? They can’t hurt me, but …”

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

“There’s nothing like local knowledge and after thousands of years living here the Noongar mob understand this land better than anyone, so it makes sense for them to tap into the lucrative tourism industry.”

“There’s a saying among blak mob, ‘It doesn’t matter how much milk you put in tea, it’s still tea.’ I am a descendant of genocide survivors, a child of the oldest living culture on Earth. Nothing, no amount of milk, can change that.”

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

“Instead of fighting the mobs myself someone led me around to "help" me level; […]”

“You can't win with small, balanced groups. You have to zerg the mob with a high number of players.”

“The campfires provide enough plain old regular visible light to show this sorry affair for what it is: a bunch of demented Boy Scouts, a jamboree without merit badges or hygiene. With the IR supered on top of the visible, she can also see vague, spectral red faces out in the shadows where her unassisted eyes would only see darkness. These new Knight Visions cost her a big wad of her Mob drug-running money. Just the kind of thing Mom had in mind when she insisted Y.T. get a part-time job.”

“tempted to ascribe Poe's narrators' mentions of the Mob to misanthropy in the author himself”

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