mob

1 a disorderly crowd of people [syn: rabble, rout]

2 a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities [syn: syndicate, crime syndicate, family]

3 an association of criminals; "police tried to break up the gang"; "a pack of thieves" [syn: gang, pack, ring] v : press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium" [syn: throng, pack, pile, jam] [also: mobbing, mobbed]

English

Pronunciation

• mŏb, /mɒb/, /mQb/

  Rhymes: -ɒb

Noun

1. An unruly group of people.
2. A commonly used collective noun for animals such as horses or cattle.

Translations

• Arabic: مجموعة من الناس الخارجين عن السيطرة
• Finnish: lauma, väkijoukko
• Greek: όχλος (óchlos) (unruly group), κοπάδι (2)
• French: foule
• Hebrew:
• Scots: clanjamphry
• Turkish: başıbozuk, güruh

Verb

1. to crowd around someone or something

Mob may refer to:

• An unruly crowd (of people)
  • Flash mob (social phenomenon)
  • Smart mob (a temporary self-structuring social organization, coordinated through telecommunication)
• A collection of animals (in wool classing it refers to sheep of similar breeding that have run together).
• A group of Aborigines.
• Mobile Regional Airport (IATA airport code), located in Mobile, Alabama
• Mob (computer gaming) a monster or non-player character in a computer game.
• Mob rule (as in mobile vulgus, fickle crowd).
• Mobbing, a form of systematic harassment.
  • Mobbing behavior in nature.
• The Mafia is also sometimes referred to as the Mob.
• Mission of Burma, spelled MoB (lower-case "o").

MOB as an initialism may refer to:

• Management and Organizational Behavior
• Mail-order bride
• Main Operating Base
• Man overboard
• Mobile offshore base
• Money Over Bitches
• Marching Owl Band
• Mobile Regional Airport
• Montreux-Oberland Bernois, Swiss railway
• Movable Object Block, used in computer graphics
• Mob (computer gaming) a monster or non-player character in a computer game.
• Member of Bloods- see Bloods
• Money over bitches - Often said by Tupac Shakur as M.O.B. In "Blasphemy" on the The_Don_Killuminati:_The_7_Day_Theory album, he states it stands for "Money over bitches". It has been argued that it really stands for Member of Bloods.
• Medical Office Building
• MOB productions, the association of comic book writers Brian Michael Bendis, Michael Avon Oeming and David Mack

See also

• The Mob
• 1 vs 100, a game show where the 100 antagonists are referred to as The Mob

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