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Antonyms for mob

Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : mob
Phonetic Transcription : mÉ’b

Definition of mob

Origin :
  • 1680s, "disorderly part of the population, rabble," slang shortening of mobile, mobility "common people, populace, rabble" (1670s, probably with a conscious play on nobility), from Latin mobile vulgus "fickle common people" (the phrase attested c.1600 in English), from mobile, neuter of mobilis "fickle, movable, mobile" (see mobile (adj.)). In Australia and New Zealand, used without disparagement for "a crowd." Meaning "gang of criminals working together" is from 1839, originally of thieves or pick-pockets; American English sense of "organized crime in general" is from 1927.
  • The Mob was not a synonym for the Mafia. It was an alliance of Jews, Italians, and a few Irishmen, some of them brilliant, who organized the supply, and often the production, of liquor during the thirteen years, ten months, and nineteen days of Prohibition. ... Their alliance -- sometimes called the Combination but never the Mafia -- was part of the urgent process of Americanizing crime. [Pete Hamill, "Why Sinatra Matters," 1998]
  • Mob scene "crowded place" first recorded 1922.
  • noun large group of people
  • verb come upon by pushing; surround
Example sentences :
  • If they rode down in a mob the boy would no doubt surrender.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • The mob of London were less compassionate than the sailors had been.
  • Extract from : « Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II » by Charlotte Mary Yonge
  • In like manner did the mob fashion lords and princes, each in its own image.
  • Extract from : « The Call of the Twentieth Century » by David Starr Jordan
  • I've heard these highbrow chaps talking about the Mob and the Tasteful Few.
  • Extract from : « The Foolish Lovers » by St. John G. Ervine
  • I don't want just to be one of a mob of fairly good writers.
  • Extract from : « The Foolish Lovers » by St. John G. Ervine
  • "We will not give him up to a Spanish priest," shouted the mob.
  • Extract from : « Fair Margaret » by H. Rider Haggard
  • Indeed, once when they passed a square, a priest in the mob cried out, "Kill them!"
  • Extract from : « Fair Margaret » by H. Rider Haggard
  • We could look for no response but laughs of derision or the missiles of a mob.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume VII (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier
  • He has not sufficient finesse and sensitiveness to sympathize with the mob.
  • Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton
  • Elijah Lovejoy, an Illinois abolition editor, was killed by a mob.
  • Extract from : « The Nation in a Nutshell » by George Makepeace Towle

Synonyms for mob

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