mob

Speech parts

1. mob - Noun

2. mob - Adjective

3. mob - Verb

4. mob - Interjection

5. Mob - Proper noun

Meaning

A mobcap.

To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl.

The lower classes of a community; the populace, or the lowest part of it.

A throng; a rabble; esp., an unlawful or riotous assembly; a disorderly crowd.

To crowd about, as a mob, and attack or annoy; as, to mob a house or a person.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

pack gang throng rabble posse public ring crowd populace multitude jam syndicate swarm assemblage riffraff
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Antonyms

prime gentry big brother hall of fame few line
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Hypernyms

association crowd gangland organized crime crowd together gangdom

Hyponyms

mafia Cosa Nostra nest maffia lynch mob youth gang

Phrases with the word

mob justice mob boss mob guys mob hit mob killing basic mob

Derivatives

mobbed mobbing

Examples

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda. Hannah Arendt

Our supreme governors, the mob. Horace Walpole

I am the people - the mob - the crowd - the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me. Carl Sandburg

The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mob has many heads, but no brains. (1732) English Proverb

Who builds on the mob builds on sand. Italian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

moatlike Moats Moazagotl mob boss mob cap mob guys