Mob
[mɒb] or [mɑb]
Definition
(n.) A mobcap.
(v. t.) To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl.
(n.) The lower classes of a community; the populace, or the lowest part of it.
(n.) A throng; a rabble; esp., an unlawful or riotous assembly; a disorderly crowd.
(v. t.) To crowd about, as a mob, and attack or annoy; as, to mob a house or a person.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Tumultuous rabble, rude multitude, lawless crowd.[2]. Populace, CANAILLE, riff-raff, lower orders, vulgar herd, scum of society, dregs of the people, rag-tag-and-bob-tail.[3]. Mob-cap.
Editor: Samantha
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Disorderly_crowd, tumultuous_rabble, rude_multitude,[See BEVY]
Checker: Lola
Definition
n. the mobile or fickle common people: the vulgar: the rabble: a disorderly crowd a riotous assembly: a large herd or flock.—v.t. to attack in a disorderly crowd:—pr.p. mob′bing; pa.p. mobbed.—adj. Mob′bish.—ns. Mob′-law lynch-law; Moboc′racy rule or ascendency exercised by the mob; Mob′ocrat a demagogue.—adj. Mobocrat′ic.—n. Mobs′man a well-dressed thief or swindler—usually Swell-mobsman.
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Examples
- No, say my lords the mob, you sha'n't have that. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- He said something to the priest but I could not hear what he said for the noise of the mob. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- There were bodies of constables with blue staves, twenty committee-men with blue scarfs, and a mob of voters with blue cockades. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- In Provence, on his way out of the country, his life was endangered by a royalist mob. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The whole mob were suffering for exercise, and it was not fifteen minutes till they were all on foot and I had the lead again. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He praises your hard spirit, your determined cast of mind, your scorn of low enemies, your resolution not 'to truckle to the mob,' as he says. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- They'll have enough to do to catch some of the mob. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- But suppose there are two mobs? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Many inventors have barely escaped with their lives from the fury of mobs who thought the inventor would take their living from them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Hargreaves was driven from Lancashire to Nottingham, and many of his larger jennies were broken by mobs. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The mobs used to riot there, but they must seek another rallying-place in future. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Seething mobs of men marched about, their faces lighted up as for holy war, with a smoke of cupidity. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He must not head mobs, or set the ton in dress. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The inner guards went down beneath howling mobs, and the cages vomited forth their inmates hot with the lust to kill. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
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