Definition: mob

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

mob
     adj : characteristic of a mob; disorderly or lawless; "mob rule";
           "fanned mounting tension into mobbish terrorizing";
           "moblike mentality" [syn: mobbish, moblike]
     n 1: a disorderly crowd of people [syn: rabble, rout]
     2: a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized
        criminal activities [syn: syndicate]
     3: an association of criminals; "police tried to break up the
        gang"; "a pack of thieves" [syn: gang, pack, ring]
     v : press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the
         auditorium" [syn: throng, pack, pile, jam]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Mob \Mob\, n. [See Mobcap.]
   A mobcap. --Goldsmith.
Mob \Mob\, v. t.
   To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl. [R.]
Mob \Mob\, n. [L. mobile vulgus, the movable common people. See
   Mobile, n.]
   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 throng; 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.
Mob \Mob\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mobbed; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Mobbing.]
   To crowd about, as a mob, and attack or annoy; as, to mob a
   house or a person.