Thesaurus: mob

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1. n. A mobcap.
2. v. t. To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl.
3. n. The lower classes of a community; the populace, or the lowest part of it.
4. n. A throng; a rabble; esp., an unlawful or riotous assembly; a disorderly crowd.
5. v. t. To crowd about, as a mob, and attack or annoy; as, to mob a house or a person.
6. n. a disorderly crowd of people
7. n. a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
8. n. an association of criminals
9. v. press tightly together or cram
10. A mobcap. Goldsmith. To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl. [R.] 1. The lower classes of a community; the populace, or the lowest part of it. A cluster of mob were making themselves merry with their betters. Addison. 2. Hence: A throgn; a rabble; esp., an unlawful or riotous assembly; a disorderly crowd. The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease. Pope. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. Madison. Confused by brainless mobs. Tennyson. Mob law, law administered by the mob; lynch law. -- Swell mob, well dressed thieves and swindlers, regarded collectively. [Slang] Dickens. To crowd about, as a mob, and attack or annoy; as, to mob a house or a person.
11. A mobcap. Goldsmith.
12. v:8/j:3/n:89 n. a disorderly crowd of people