mob
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3.4
- noun
- /mɑb/
:
turba
- JACK looks at DAVID for direction, then at the mob of angry BOYS.
- angry mob
- mob violence
- mob rule
Essentially it's an online mob, but it's a mob and doesn't remember.
- Essentially it's an online mob, but it's a mob and doesn't remember.
- But like, you know, the Twitter mob did not understand that.
- They allow the angry mob to come and beat you.
- I want you to know that this violent mob do not represent our country.
- Now another Twitter hate mob is taken out a young man.
- Watch and listen to some sounds and sights of this mob and what she was up against.
- Men and women, old and young, the foremost in the mob, come to share a single thought.
- And I woke up to an angry mob.
- When people, when people get out of that mob, they look at it and say this was wrong.
- I mean, I think it's, it's I think we've seen less coordinated sort of Twitter mob tear downs.
- You know, it's like, I feel like the online mob has just become.
- You know, the, the world, lynchings and violent mobs, racist, violent mobs going on.
- So yeah, I the mob has come for me around the edges.
- But yeah, you're right about the the mob coming out to you.
Examples
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I'll tell you what: a rampaging mob and no one will be safe.
Fiction book (1990) -
There should be an angry mob out there.
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Paris was now filled with angry mobs hunting John Law.
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We pull back to see an unruly mob of newsies gathered by the statue.
Fiction book (1992) -
The angry mob marched through the streets, shouting for justice.
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After the announcement was made, a large mob gathered outside the town hall.
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The excitement grew as the mob started to chant slogans in unison.
Synonyms
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1.0
Many people or things are close together in one place
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3.4
A large moving group of people or animals that seems hard to control and overwhelming
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3.4
A large group of insects or people moving together without control
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7.2
A large noisy crowd of people who are hard to control
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5.9
A large group of people packed tightly together
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5.1
A tightly packed group of people in a small space
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4.6
A large group of people gathered together
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9.0
A noisy, violent crowd that causes trouble and damage
Compounds
- Offensive
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9.4
A group of people who kill or threaten to kill someone without a trial because of hate
- Texting
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4.6
A group of people who suddenly gather in public to perform a planned unusual act and then leave
- Offensive
A group of people who quickly and strongly criticise others online for social or political views
How Disorderly
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mob comes from the same root as mobile, which means 'able to move', and was used for people who could quickly come together. So a mob is a crowd that moves as one and can behave in a wild or disorderly way.