Mob

mob
    n 1: a disorderly crowd of people [syn: {mob}, {rabble}, {rout}]
    2: a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized
       criminal activities [syn: {syndicate}, {crime syndicate},
       {mob}, {family}]
    3: an association of criminals; "police tried to break up the
       gang"; "a pack of thieves" [syn: {gang}, {pack}, {ring},
       {mob}]
    v 1: press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the
         auditorium" [syn: {throng}, {mob}, {pack}, {pile}, {jam}]
    

Mob \Mob\, n. [See {Mobcap}.]
   A mobcap. --Goldsmith.
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Mob \Mob\, v. t.
   To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl. [R.]
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Mob \Mob\, n. [L. mobile vulgus, the movable common people. See
   {Mobile}, n.]
   1. The lower classes of a community; the populace, or the
      lowest part of it.
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            A cluster of mob were making themselves merry with
            their betters.                        --Addison.
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   2. Hence: A throng; a rabble; esp., an unlawful or riotous
      assembly; a disorderly crowd.
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            The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease. --Pope.
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            Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every
            Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.
                                                  --Madison.
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            Confused by brainless mobs.           --Tennyson.
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   3. A criminal organization or organized criminal gangs,
      collectively; the Mafia; the syndicate; as, he was a
      lawyer for the mob.
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   {Mob law}, law administered by the mob; lynch law.

   {Swell mob}, well dressed thieves and swindlers, regarded
      collectively. [Slang] --Dickens.
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Mob \Mob\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mobbed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Mobbing}.]
   To crowd about, as a mob, and attack or annoy; as, to mob a
   house or a person.
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180 Moby Thesaurus words for "mob":
      Black Hand, Bund, Cosa Nostra, Rochdale cooperative, a mass of,
      a world of, age group, alliance, army, assemblage, association,
      axis, band, battalion, bevy, bloc, body, brigade, bunch, cabal,
      cadre, camarilla, camp, canaille, carpet, cast, cell,
      charmed circle, chew out, circle, clan, clique, closed circle,
      cloud, cluster, clutter, coalition, cohort, cohue, college,
      combination, combine, common market, company, complement,
      confederacy, confederation, consumer cooperative, contingent,
      cooperative, cooperative society, corps, coterie, council, covey,
      credit union, crew, crowd, crush, customs union, deluge,
      detachment, detail, division, dregs, economic community, elite,
      elite group, faction, federation, fleet, flight, flock, flocks,
      flood, free trade area, galaxy, gang, gangdom, gangland, group,
      grouping, groupment, hail, heap, herd, hive, horde, host,
      ignobile vulgus, in-group, ingroup, inner circle, jam, junta,
      junto, large amount, lash, league, legion, lots, machine, many,
      many-headed multitude, mass, masses, masses of, mobile vulgus,
      movement, muchness, multitude, nest, numbers, organized crime,
      out-group, outfit, pack, panoply, partnership, party, peer group,
      phalanx, platoon, plurality, political machine, posse, press,
      proletariat, push, quantities, quite a few, rabble,
      ragtag and bobtail, rail, rate, regiment, riffraff, ring, rout,
      row, ruck, salon, scores, scum, set, shoal, society, spate, squad,
      stable, string, swarm, team, the Mafia, the common herd, the crowd,
      the great unnumbered, the great unwashed, the herd, the hoi polloi,
      the horde, the majority, the many, the masses, the mob,
      the multitude, the rackets, the syndicate, the underworld, throng,
      tidy sum, trash, tribe, troop, troupe, union, unwashed, we-group,
      wing, worlds of