Mob : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Mob	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for Mob
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mob n a disorderly crowd of people Synonym(s): mob, rabble, rout a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities Synonym(s): syndicate, crime syndicate, mob, family an association of criminals; "police tried to break up the gang"; "a pack of thieves" Synonym(s): gang, pack, ring, mob v press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium" Synonym(s): throng, mob, pack, pile, jam
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mob \Mob\, v. t. To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl. [R.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mob \Mob\, n. [See {Mobcap}.] A mobcap. --Goldsmith.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mob \Mob\, n. [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 throng; 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mob \Mob\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mobbed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mobbing}.] To crowd about, as a mob, and attack or annoy; as, to mob a house or a person.