Mob
Mob , noun
[See Mobcap.]
A mobcap. — Goldsmith
Mob , transitive verb
To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl. [Rare]
Mob , noun
[Latin 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.
2.
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.
3.
A criminal organization or organized criminal gangs, collectively; the Mafia; the syndicate; as, he was a lawyer for the mob.
Collocations (2)
Mob law , law administered by the mob; lynch law.
Swell mob , well dressed thieves and swindlers, regarded collectively. [Slang] — Dickens
Mob , transitive verb
To crowd about, as a mob, and attack or annoy; as, to mob a house or a person.