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mob omb mbo bmo obm bom

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Definitions and meaning of mob

mob

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: mŏb, IPA^(key): /mɒb/
• (General American) enPR: mŏb, IPA^(key): /mɑb/
• Rhymes: -ɒb

Etymology 1

From Middle English mob, short for mobile, from Latin mōbile (vulgus) (“fickle (crowd)”). The video-gaming sense originates from English mobile, used by Richard Bartle for objects capable of movement in an early MUD.

Noun

mob (plural mobs)

2. A large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action.
   • February 13, 1788, James Madison, Jr., Federalist No. 55

     Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

   See also: Mob (the masses)

4. (archaic) The lower classes of a community; the rabble.
6. (collective noun) A group of animals such as horses or cattle.
8. (collective noun) A group of kangaroos.
10. (collective noun) A flock of emus.
12. A mafia: a group that engages in organized crime.

    See also: Mob, Mafia (proper noun senses for specific ones)

14. (video games) A non-player character, especially one that exists to be fought or killed to further the progression of the story or game.
16. (Australian Aboriginal) A group of Aboriginal people associated with an extended family group, clan group or wider community group, from a particular place or country.

Synonyms

• (mafia): mafia, Mafia

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Translations

Verb

mob (third-person singular simple present mobs, present participle mobbing, simple past and past participle mobbed)

1. (transitive) To crowd around (someone), sometimes with hostility.
2. (transitive) To crowd into or around a place.

Translations

Etymology 2

Alteration of mab.

Noun

mob (plural mobs)

1. (obsolete) A promiscuous woman; a harlot or wench; a prostitute. [17th–18th c.]
2. A mob cap.
   • c. 1773-1774, Oliver Goldsmith, letter to Mrs Bunbury

     cover their faces with mobs

Derived terms

• mob cap

Verb

mob (third-person singular simple present mobs, present participle mobbing, simple past and past participle mobbed)

1. (transitive) To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl.

Etymology 3

Abbreviation of mobile phone.

Noun

mob (plural mobs)

1. Abbreviation of mobile phone.

Usage notes

• This is most often used in signwriting to match with the other three-letter abbreviations tel (“telephone”) and fax (“facsimile”).

Further reading

• Mob in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

References

Anagrams

• BMO, BOM, BoM, MBO, OMB

Danish

Verb

mob

1. imperative of mobbe

French

Etymology

Clipping of mobylette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔb/

Noun

mob f (plural mobs)

1. (colloquial) scooter, moped

Further reading

• “mob”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mob/

Noun

mob (nominative plural mobs)

1. suggestion

Declension

Derived terms

• mobön

White Hmong

Etymology

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *ʔmun (“illness, pain”). Cognate with Iu Mien mun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɒ˥/

Verb

mob

1. to be ill/sick; to hurt; to be unwell

References

• Ernest E. Heimbach, White Hmong - English Dictionary (1979, SEAP Publications)