mob Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a disorderly crowd of people
    rabble; rout.
  2. noun a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
    family; crime syndicate; syndicate.
  3. noun an association of criminals
    ring; gang; pack.
    • police tried to break up the gang
    • a pack of thieves
  4. verb press tightly together or cram
    throng; jam; pile; pack.
    • The crowd packed the auditorium

WordNet

Mob noun
Etymology
See Mobcap.
Definitions
  1. A mobcap. Goldsmith.
Mob transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl. R.
Mob noun
Etymology
L. mobile vulgus, the movable common people. See Mobile, n.
Definitions
  1. The lower classes of a community; the populace, or the lowest part of it.
    A cluster of mob were making themselves merry with their betters. Addison.
  2. Hence: A throgn; a rabble; esp., an unlawful or riotous assembly; a disorderly crowd.
    The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease. Pope.
    Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. Madison.
    Confused by brainless mobs. Tennyson.
Mob transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Mobbed ; present participle & verbal noun Mobbing
Definitions
  1. To crowd about, as a mob, and attack or annoy; as, to mob a house or a person.

Webster 1913