| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Mob.[Websters]
2. To be massed or regimented. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have flocked, hosted or shoaled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To be cushioned, ribbed or sided. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have heaped, thronged, trooped, clustered or huddled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To be batched or lotted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have ganged, crewed or massaged. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To be striped or rayed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have banded, partied, girthed, taped or stripped. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To be webbed.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb mob.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "MOBBED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1696. (references) |
Specialty Definition: mob
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] A crowd or promiscuous multitude of people, rude, tumultuous and disorderly.. | 2: [Noun] A disorderly assembly. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.. | 3: [Noun] A huddled dress.. | 4: [Verb] To attack in a disorderly crowd; to harass tumultuously.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Administration | Mobilization. (references) | ||
| Census | (Mobility Status) A screener question on surveys and censuses to determine if a person lived in their current residence either 5 years earlier (censuses) or 1 year earlier (surveys). Used to determine whether or not to ask a series of questions on location of previous residence. (references) | ||
| Environment | Missile Order of Battle. (references) | ||
| Geography | Mob is geographically located in Pakistan. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 26.351389 degrees North latitude and 68.75 degrees East longitude. (references) | ||
| Literature | Mob A contraction of the Latin mobile vulgus (the fickle crowd). The term was first applied to the people by the members of the Green-ribbon Club, in the reign of Charles II. (Northern Examiner, p. 574.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| Military | 1: 1) Main operations base. 2) Mobilization. (references) | 2: Mobile. (references) | |
| MultiLingual Slang | Catalan (gentussa). (references) | ||
| Slang | Verb. Source: Linguistic 101 students at the University of Oregon. Definition: To go somewhere quickly. Context: When you are running late and need to go fast. Social Source: Theta Chi Fraternity. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) | ||
| Technology | 1: Main Operating Base. (references) | 2: Maritime Order of Battle. (references) | 3: Mobilization Offshore Base. (references) |
| Wikipedic | The word mob has its origins in the 17th century when it was formed from the latin mobile vulgus, meaning a vacillating crowd. It now has multiple meanings. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] A commonly used collective noun for animals such as horses or cattle. (references) | 2: [Noun] An unruly group of people. (references) | 3: [Verb] to crowd around someone or something. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
Common Expressions: mob
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Charlestown Mob | Charlestown, Massachusett's Irish mob has been part of Boston history for a long time. In the early to mid-sixties Charlestown's The McLaughlin Brothers gang (run by Bernard McLaughlin and his brothers Edward Punchy McLaughlin, and George McLaughlin) was involved in the Boston Irish Gang Wars against James Buddy McLean and Somerville's Winter Hill Gang. (references) | ||
| Dutch Mob | The Dutch Mob was a New York pickpocket gang during the late nineteenth century. (references) | ||
| Irish Mob Wars | The Boston Irish Mob Wars started in the early 1960's, when according to Vincent Teresa in My Life in the Mafia (ISBN 1568493770), George McLaughlin (of "The McLaughlin Brothers" gang of Charlestown,Massachusetts), while drunk, apparently groped the breast of the girlfriend of Alex Rocco[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0733678/bio], a member of "The Winter Hill Gang" of Somerville,Massachusetts. This sparked the Irish Gang Wars that resulted in the deaths of over forty hoodlums from both sides. That includes “Winter Hill Gang” Leader James "Buddy" McLean, Edward "Punchy" McLaughlin, and Bernard McLaughlin. (references) | ||
| Lynch mob | A mob that kills a person for some presumed offense without legal authority. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Married to the Mob | Married to the Mob is a 1988 comedy film. It was directed by Jonathan Demme and starred Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Modine, Dean Stockwell and Mercedes Ruehl. (references) | ||
| Mayored to the Mob | Mayored to the Mob is the ninth episode of The Simpsons' tenth season. It aired on December 20, 1998. (references) | ||
| Mob (computer gaming) | A mob is a non-player character (NPC) or monster in a computer role-playing game (especially MUDs and MMORPGs). It is widely accepted as being short for mobile object or simply mobile, stemming from its use in the earliest text-based MUDs, and is commonly written either mob or MOB (the latter more often considered an acronym of Movable Object Block, a term for any on-screen moving object, or sprite). There appears to be some debate on the exact origins or the term, and backronyms such as "monster or beast" and "mere ordinary beast" have been developed. (references) | ||
| Mob Action | Mob Action is a clothing label based in Leipzig, Germany. The name is synonymous with riot, outlining the company's political appeal. (references) | ||
| Mob law | Law administered by the mob; lynch law. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Mob psychology | Mob psychology is a theoretical approach that tries to explain collective behavior solely on the basis of the psychological states of people who participate. (references) | ||
| Mob Quad | Mob Quad is a four-sided group of buildings in Merton College, Oxford surrounding a small lawn. It is often claimed to be the oldest quadrangle in Oxford, but Merton's own Front Quad was certainly enclosed earlier and the same form was probably developed independently elsewhere. The pattern has since been copied at many other colleges and universities world wide. (references) | ||
| Mongrel Mob | The Mongrel Mob is a New Zealand gang formed and organised in Hastings with the motive of total rebellion and the complete destruction of non-affiliates or Outsiders. They are usually identified by the red colours and distinctive patches worn by members. The patches usually feature a Bulldog wearing a German Stahlhelm which supposedly represents the primal 'psyche' associated with its members and is an image intended to offend. (references) | ||
| Royal crescent mob | They could have been bigger than the Red Hot Chili Peppers... (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
Specialty Expressions: mob
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| King Mob | Literature | 1: The "ignobile vulgus. " 2: The better-dressed thieves and pickpockets. A "swell" is a person showily dressed; one who puffs himself out beyond his proper dimensions, like the frog in the fable. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
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Abbreviations & Acronyms: mob
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | ||||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field | |
| MOB | English | (basic)monitor operating | N/A | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | Top | |||
