| word | mob |
|---|---|
| definition | noun A mob is a large, disorganized, and often violent crowd of people. Bottles and cans were hurled on the terraces by the mob. The inspectors watched a growing mob of demonstrators gathering. People sometimes use the mob to refer in a disapproving way to the majority of people in a country or place, especially when these people are behaving in a violent or uncontrolled way. If they continue like this, there is a danger of the mob taking over. They have been exercising what amounts to mob rule. You can refer to the people involved in organized crime as the Mob . ...casinos that the Mob had operated. It was a Mob killing. verb If you say that someone is being mobbed by a crowd of people, you mean that the people are trying to talk to them or get near them in an enthusiastic or threatening way. Her car was mobbed by the media. They found themselves being mobbed in the street for autographs. |
| inflections | mobsmobbingmobbed |
| cefr-level | C1 |
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