mob

  • 51Mob — Pöbel (derb); Ganoven (derb); Plebs; Gesindel (derb); Abschaum (derb); Pack (derb); Pöbel (derb); Gesindel; …

    Universal-Lexikon

  • 52mob — I Australian Slang 1. any assemblage or aggregation of persons, animals, or things; crowd; 2. group of people, as friends, not necessarily large: We ll invite the mob over for Saturday night ; 3. family or herd of kangaroos II The Mob Glesga… …

    English dialects glossary

  • 53mob — I v To beat somebody up. That chick stole my guy; I m going to go mob her! 1990s II n An organized criminal syndicate. I heard the mob ordered a hit on Robin Banks. 1820s …

    Historical dictionary of American slang

  • 54mob — noun 1》 a disorderly or violent crowd.     ↘Brit. informal an associated group of people.     ↘(the mob) the ordinary people. 2》 (the Mob) N. Amer. the Mafia. 3》 Austral./NZ a flock or herd of animals. verb (mobs, mobbing, mobbed) crowd round in… …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 55mób — a m (ọ̑) knjiž., redko drhal, sodrga: športni mob je vdrl na nogometno igrišče; velikomestni mob …

    Slovar slovenskega knjižnega jezika

  • 56mob — [mab] n. the crime syndicate. (Underworld and journalistic.) □ The mob has held this city in abject terror for years. □ One of the biggest fish in the mob was pulled from the river yesterday …

    Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • 57mob — [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 …

    Word origins

  • 58mob — I. noun Etymology: Latin mobile vulgus vacillating crowd Date: 1688 1. a large or disorderly crowd; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action 2. the lower classes of a community ; masses, rabble 3. chiefly Australian a flock, drove, or …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 59mob — 1. noun /mɒb,mɑb/ a) An unruly group of people. What if it is a mob killing? They can’t hurt me, but… b) A commonly used collective noun for animals such as horses or cattle. Syn: mafia …

    Wiktionary

  • 60mob — Synonyms and related words: Black Hand, Bund, Cosa Nostra, Rochdale cooperative, a mass of, a world of, age group, alliance, army, assemblage, association, axis, band, battalion, bevy, bloc, body, brigade, bunch, cabal, cadre, camarilla, camp,… …

    Moby Thesaurus