Dictionary Definition
mob
Noun
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]
User Contributed Dictionary
Noun
- An unruly group of people.
- 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
- to crowd around someone or something
Extensive Definition
Mob may refer to:
- An unruly crowd (of people)
- 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
mob in German: MOB
mob in French: MOB
mob in Italian: MOB
mob in Kölsch: MOB (Watt ėßß datt?)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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