mob

Abbreviation of English Moinba.

mob

1. (international standards, obsolete) Former ISO 639-3 language code for Moinba.

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: mŏb, IPA^(key): /mɒb/
• (General American) enPR: mŏb, IPA^(key): /mɑb/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɒb

From Middle English mob, short for mobile, from Latin mōbile (vulgus) (“fickle (crowd)”).

mob (plural mobs)

2. A large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action.
   • February 13, 1788, James Madison, Jr., Federalist No. 55

     Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

   See also: Mob (the masses)

4. (archaic) The lower classes of a community; the rabble.
   • 1715 June 1 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 44. Saturday, May 21. [1715.]”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published 1721, →OCLC:

     A cluster of mob, who were making themselves merry with their betters.

6. (collective) A group of animals such as horses or cattle.

   Coordinate term: herd

8. (collective) A group of kangaroos.
10. (collective) A group of emus.

    Coordinate term: flock

12. A mafia: a group that engages in organized crime.
    • 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 01:

      The Bat—they called him the Bat. […]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.

    • 1979, P. K. Jensen, “The Greco-Turkish war, 1920–1922”, in International Journal of Middle East Studies, volume 10, number 4, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, pages 563–564:

      The Turkish population was subjected to horrible atrocities by the retreating Greek troops and the Christian mobs, a type of genocide.

    • 1986, Paul Chadwick, Concrete: Under the Desert Stars, Dark Horse Books:

      What if it is a mob killing? They can’t hurt me, but …

    See also: Mob, Mafia (proper noun senses for specific ones)

14. (Australian Aboriginal) A group of Aboriginal people associated with an extended family group, clan group or wider community group, from a particular place or country.^[1]
    • 2011 March 10, Allan Clarke, W.A. through Noongar eyes‎^[1]:

      There’s nothing like local knowledge and after thousands of years living here the Noongar mob understand this land better than anyone, so it makes sense for them to tap into the lucrative tourism industry.

    • 2021 November 7, Claire [G.] Coleman, “Not quite blak enough: ‘The people who think I am too white to be Aboriginal are all white’”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

      There’s a saying among blak mob, ‘It doesn’t matter how much milk you put in tea, it’s still tea.’ I am a descendant of genocide survivors, a child of the oldest living culture on Earth. Nothing, no amount of milk, can change that.

• (mafia): mafia, Mafia

mob (third-person singular simple present mobs, present participle mobbing, simple past and past participle mobbed)

1. (transitive) To crowd around (someone), sometimes with hostility.

   The fans mobbed a well-dressed couple who resembled their idols.

   • 2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, in the Guardian‎^[3]:

     Politicians have been turning up to Glastonbury for years, but this year the leader of the opposition was among the most hotly anticipated attractions: when he arrived on site, his Land Rover was mobbed by fans.

2. (transitive) To crowd into or around a place.

   The shoppers mobbed the store on the first day of the sale.

Alteration of mab.

mob (plural mobs)

1. (obsolete) A promiscuous woman; a harlot or wench; a prostitute. [17th–18th c.]
2. A mob cap.
   • c. 1773-1774, Oliver Goldsmith, letter to Mrs Bunbury

     cover their faces with mobs

• mob cap

mob (third-person singular simple present mobs, present participle mobbing, simple past and past participle mobbed)

1. (transitive) To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl.

Clipping of mobile. The video-gaming sense is sometimes reported as an abbreviation of man or beast or of mobile object, but these are backronyms.

mob (plural mobs)

1. Abbreviation of mobile phone.

   Synonym: cell

3. (video games) A creature or non-player character, especially one meant to be fought or killed.

   Synonym: mobile

   • 1999, Natalia, “Female Characters”, in GameCommandos‎^[4]:

     Instead of fighting the mobs myself someone led me around to "help" me level; […]

   • 2002, Wolfie, “Re: Whoa - massive changes due in next patch”, in alt.games.everquest (Usenet):

     You can't win with small, balanced groups. You have to zerg the mob with a high number of players.

4. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) (chiefly Japanese fiction) A background character in general.

• (mobile phone): This is most often used in signwriting to match with the other three-letter abbreviations tel (“telephone”) and fax (“facsimile”).
• (video game character): This was rare outside the multi-user dungeon genre until 2009, when it was popularized by Minecraft developer Markus Persson. He may have been familiar with MUD terminology from his work on Wurm Online.

• Mob (video games) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Mob in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

• BMO, BOM, BoM, MBO, OMB

mob

1. imperative of mobbe

Clipping of mobylette.

• IPA^(key): /mɔb/

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mob f (plural mobs)

1. (colloquial) scooter, moped

• “mob”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Borrowed from English mob, from Middle English mob, short for mobile, from Latin mōbile (vulgus) (“fickle (crowd)”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈmob/ [ˈmɔp̚]
• Rhymes: -ob
• Syllabification: mob

mob (plural mob-mob)

1. (politics) mob: a large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action

• “mob”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

• IPA^(key): /mob/

mob (genitive moba, plural mobs)

1. suggestion

• mobön

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *ʔmun (“illness, pain”). Cognate with Iu Mien mun.

• IPA^(key): /mɒ˥/

mob

1. to be ill/sick; to hurt; to be unwell

• Ernest E. Heimbach, White Hmong - English Dictionary (1979, SEAP Publications)