Mob (?), n. [See Mobcap.] A mobcap. Goldsmith.
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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.
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A cluster of mob were making themselves merry with their betters. Addison.
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2. Hence: A throng; a rabble; esp., an unlawful or riotous assembly; a disorderly crowd.
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The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease. Pope.
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Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. Madison.
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Confused by brainless mobs. Tennyson.
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Mob law, law administered by the mob; lynch law. -- Swell mob, well dressed thieves and swindlers, regarded collectively. [Slang] Dickens.
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