mob
mob /m'ɒb/ (mobs mobbing mobbed)
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A mob is a large, disorganized, and often violent crowd of people.
The inspectors watched a growing mob of demonstrators gathering.
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People sometimes use the mob to refer in a disapproving way to the majority of people in a country or place, especially when these people are behaving in a violent or uncontrolled way.
If they continue like this there is a danger of the mob taking over...
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You can refer to the people involved in organized crime as the Mob. (INFORMAL)
...casinos that the Mob had operated...
4 [VERB] usu passive, be V-ed
If you say that someone is being mobbed by a crowd of people, you mean that the people are trying to talk to them or get near them in an enthusiastic or threatening way.
They found themselves being mobbed in the street for autographs.lynch mob (lynch mobs)
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A lynch mob is an angry crowd of people who want to kill someone without a trial, because they believe that person has committed a crime.
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You can refer to a group of people as a lynch mob if they are very angry with someone because they believe that person has done something bad or wrong.
Something approaching a lynch mob has been gathering against the Chancellor for even daring to consider higher interest rates.
1 [N-COUNT]
A mob is a large, disorganized, and often violent crowd of people.
The inspectors watched a growing mob of demonstrators gathering.
2 [N-SING] the N, N n
People sometimes use the mob to refer in a disapproving way to the majority of people in a country or place, especially when these people are behaving in a violent or uncontrolled way.
If they continue like this there is a danger of the mob taking over...
3 [N-SING] usu the N, N n
You can refer to the people involved in organized crime as the Mob. (INFORMAL)
...casinos that the Mob had operated...
4 [VERB] usu passive, be V-ed
If you say that someone is being mobbed by a crowd of people, you mean that the people are trying to talk to them or get near them in an enthusiastic or threatening way.
They found themselves being mobbed in the street for autographs.lynch mob (lynch mobs)
1 [N-COUNT]
A lynch mob is an angry crowd of people who want to kill someone without a trial, because they believe that person has committed a crime.
2 [N-COUNT]
You can refer to a group of people as a lynch mob if they are very angry with someone because they believe that person has done something bad or wrong.
Something approaching a lynch mob has been gathering against the Chancellor for even daring to consider higher interest rates.