mob

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Your first reaction may be to shoot him or her down and run like the mob is after your watch, but you need to slow down and think about it.

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  1. noun A large disorderly crowd or throng. See Synonyms at crowd1.
  2. noun The mass of common people; the populace.
  3. noun Informal An organized gang of criminals; a crime syndicate.

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  • Your first reaction may be to shoot him or her down and run like the mob is after your watch, but you need to slow down and think about it. —  The Daily Evergreen News Feed
  • In fact, if the passions of the mob were aroused they were undoubtedly organized, directed, and held in check by those who knew well how to command, and to give to an illegal act the gravity and decorum of legality News travelled slowly in those days. —  A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4)
  • This mixing of the aristocratic element with the mob was a good sign, and showed that their popularity was extending to London. —  The Man Who Laughs
  • We must leave; the mob is here with guns 11.50. —  The Great Riots of New York, 1712 to 1873
  • I do not charge him with participating in the riot, although the mob were all his friends and partisans. —  The Golden Dog
 

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crowd ·  throng ·  horde ·  multitude ·  rabble ·  populace ·  gang ·  army ·  band ·  faction ·  crow ·  beast

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mob:   mobs
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Short for mobile, from Latin mōbile (vulgus), fickle (crowd), neuter of mōbilis; see mobile.

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  1. from Middle Dutch mop, a woman's cap (Dutch mop-muts, a night-cap, from mop + muts, a cap: see mutch). Cf. mop.
  2. from mob, n.
  3. Abbr. of mobile, orig. mobile vulgus, the fickle crowd: see mobile, n.
 

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