mob

  • 41mob — 1 noun (C) 1 a large, noisy crowd, especially one that is angry and violent: a mob of demonstrators | mob rule (=when a mob controls the situation rather than the government or the law) 2 informal a group of people of the same type: The usual mob …

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  • 42mob — mobylette [ mɔbilɛt ] n. f. • 1949; marque déposée, de mobile et bicyclette ♦ Cyclomoteur de la marque de ce nom. ⇒fam. 1. meule. Faire de la mobylette. Abrév. fam. (1968) MOB . ● mob nom féminin (ab …

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  • 43MOB Ge 4/4 — Ge 4/4 der MOB Ge 4/4 oberhalb Zweisimmen Die MOB Ge 4/4 sind vierachsige Schmalspur Elektrolokomotiven der Schweizer …

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  • 44mob — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ angry, hostile, unruly ▪ baying (BrE), bloodthirsty, frenzied, howling, rioting, violent …

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  • 45mob — [[t]mɒb[/t]] n. v. mobbed, mob•bing 1) a disorderly or riotous crowd of people 2) a crowd bent on or engaged in lawless violence 3) any large group of persons or things 4) the common people; the masses 5) soc Informal. a criminal gang, esp. one… …

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  • 46mob — 1. noun 1) troops dispersed the mob Syn: crowd, horde, multitude, rabble, mass, throng, group, gang, gathering, assemblage 2) (Mob) he was hiding from the Mob Syn …

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  • 47mob — n. & v. n. 1 a disorderly crowd; a rabble. 2 (prec. by the) usu. derog. the populace. 3 colloq. a gang; an associated group of persons. 4 Austral. a flock or herd. v.tr. & intr. (mobbed, mobbing) 1 tr. a crowd round in order to attack or admire.… …

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  • 48Mob — Zum Mob gehören: zu einer aufgewiegelten Volksmasse gehören; auch in der Bedeutung Pöbel, Gruppe heruntergekommener Leute. Aus: Claudian, ›De IV consulatu Honorii‹, V. 302: ›Mobile mutatur semper cum principe vulgus‹ (Mit seinem Fürsten verändert …

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  • 49mob — [17] Mob is famous as one of the then new ‘slang’ abbreviations against which Joseph Addison and Jonathan Swift inveighed at the beginning of the 18th century (others included pozz for positively and rep for reputation). Mob was short for mobile …

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  • 50mob — [mɒb] noun [C] I 1) a large crowd of people that is dangerous or difficult to control 2) the Mob informal the mafia II verb [T] mob [mɒb] if a large group of people mob someone or something, they surround them in an angry or excited way …

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