n.
- a disorderly or violent crowd.
▸Brit. informal a group of people.
▸
(the mob)
the ordinary people.
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(the Mob)
N. Amer. the Mafia.
- Austral./NZ a flock or herd of animals.
v.
(mobs, mobbing, mobbed)
crowd round or into in an unruly way.
Derivative
Etymology
C17: abbrev. of archaic mobile, short for L. mobile vulgus ‘excitable crowd’.