trash mob
- noun
- /træʃ mɑb/
- US
:
grupo de limpieza
- A trash mob descended on the city park, picking up every piece of litter they could find.
Examples
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The local environmental group organized a trash mob to clean the riverbank.
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Social media was used to coordinate a spontaneous trash mob in the downtown area.
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Join our trash mob this Saturday at the beach!
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The trash mob quickly collected garbage from the streets.
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A trash mob descended on the city park, picking up every piece of litter they could find.
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The local environmental group organized a trash mob to clean the riverbank.
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Social media was used to coordinate a spontaneous trash mob in the downtown area.
How Organized
Surface Forms
Morphology
The constituents 'trash' (worthless) + 'mob' (group) transparently yield the sense of a low-value or unimportant group, so a learner could infer that meaning. However, the specific gaming sense — a wave of weak, low-level enemies — and the noun use of 'mob' for game enemies are domain-specific and not fully predictable from the parts alone, so the expression is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Trash mob comes from the image of a sudden crowd who meet to pick up trash. Because mob means a crowd, a trash mob is people who gather quickly 'to clean up' a street or park.