Mob (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. a disorderly or riotous crowd of people.
  2. a crowd bent on or engaged in lawless violence.
  3. any group or collection of persons or things.
  4. the common people; the masses; populace or multitude.
  5. a criminal gang, especially one involved in drug trafficking, extortion, etc.
  6. Mafia (def. 1).
  7. a group of persons stimulating one another to excitement and losing ordinary rational control over their activity.
  8. a flock, herd, or drove of animals: a mob of sheep.
adjective
  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of a lawless, irrational, disorderly, or riotous crowd: mob rule; mob instincts.
  2. directed at or reflecting the lowest intellectual level of the common people: mob appeal; the mob mentality.
verb (used with object), mobbed, mob·bing.
  1. to crowd around noisily, as from curiosity or hostility: Spectators mobbed the courtroom.
  2. to attack in a riotous mob: The crowd mobbed the consulate.
  3. to chop (a fox).
noun Digital Technology.
  1. (in a video game) a hostile nonplayer character that the player may target and fight.
  1. mother of the bride.
noun
    • a riotous or disorderly crowd of people; rabble
    • (as modifier)
  2. a group or class of people, animals, or things
  3. a flock (of sheep) or a herd (of cattle, esp when droving)
  4. the masses
  5. a gang of criminals
verb mobs, mobbing or mobbed (tr)
  1. to attack in a group resembling a mob
  2. to surround, esp in order to acclaim
  3. to crowd into (a building, plaza, etc)
  4. (of a group of animals of a prey species) to harass (a predator)
abbreviation for
  1. mobile phone
Mob (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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