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mob

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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

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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

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