Mob

Definition of Mob

A mobcap.

v. t.

To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl.

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.

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. - Dickens.

v. t.

To crowd about, as a mob, and attack or annoy; as, to mob a house or a person.

[imp. & p. p. Mobbed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Mobbing.]

Related Words

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