MOB (mobbed, mobbing)

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Irregular inflected forms: mobbed    , mobbing   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does mob mean? 

• MOB (noun)
  The noun MOB has 3 senses:

1. a disorderly crowd of people

2. a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities

3. an association of criminals

  Familiarity information: MOB used as a noun is uncommon.

• MOB (verb)
  The verb MOB has 1 sense:

1. press tightly together or cram

  Familiarity information: MOB used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A disorderly crowd of people

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

mob; rabble; rout

Hypernyms ("mob" is a kind of...):

crowd (a large number of things or people considered together)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mob"):

lynch mob (a mob that kills a person for some presumed offense without legal authority)

Derivation:

mob (press tightly together or cram)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

crime syndicate; family; mob; syndicate

Hypernyms ("mob" is a kind of...):

gangdom; gangland; organized crime (underworld organizations)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mob"):

Cosa Nostra; Maffia; Mafia (a crime syndicate in the United States; organized in families; believed to have important relations to the Sicilian Mafia)

Derivation:

mobster (a criminal who is a member of gang)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An association of criminals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

gang; mob; pack; ring

Context example:

a pack of thieves

Hypernyms ("mob" is a kind of...):

association (a formal organization of people or groups of people)

Meronyms (members of "mob"):

gangster; mobster (a criminal who is a member of gang)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mob"):

nest (a gang of people (criminals or spies or terrorists) assembled in one locality)

youth gang (a gang whose members are teenagers)

Holonyms ("mob" is a member of...):

gangdom; gangland; organized crime (underworld organizations)

Derivation:

mobster (a criminal who is a member of gang)

• MOB (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they mob    ... he / she / it mobs   
Past simple: mobbed   
Past participle: mobbed   
-ing form: mobbing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Press tightly together or cram

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

jam; mob; pack; pile; throng

Context example:

The crowd packed the auditorium

Hypernyms (to "mob" is one way to...):

crowd; crowd together (to gather together in large numbers)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

mob (a disorderly crowd of people)

 Context examples 

Old Susan Dobney with the mob cap!

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Well, he would fool the mob.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Unscathed they fought their way to the door of the keep, and faced round upon the swarming mob, while the squire thrust the great key into the lock.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Hurrah for the old one!” yelled the mob, and my uncle laughed and nudged Sir John Lade.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He must not head mobs, or set the ton in dress.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

As for Mr. Allen, he repaired directly to the card-room, and left them to enjoy a mob by themselves.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The dense mob of ape-men ran about in bewilderment, marveling whence this storm of death was coming or what it might mean.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The mob of peasants had surged in upon their heels, but the two trustiest blades in Europe gleamed upon that narrow stair, and four of their number dropped upon the threshold.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was not that sun-myth that the mob was worshipping and sacrificing dinners to.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

You must get a brown gown, and a white apron, and a mob cap, and we must make you a few wrinkles, and a little of the crowsfoot at the corner of your eyes, and you will be a very proper, little old woman.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)