mob
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
A large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action.
Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.
See also: Mob (the masses)
- 2.
(archaic)The lower classes of a community; the rabble.
- 3.
(collective)A group of animals such as horses or cattle.
- 4.
(Australia)(collective) A group of kangaroos.
- 5.
(Australia)(collective) A group of emus.
- 6.
A mafia: a group that engages in organized crime.
See also: Mob, Mafia (proper noun senses for specific ones)
- 7.
(Australian Aboriginal) A group of Aboriginal people associated with an extended family group, clan group or wider community group, from a particular place or country.
- 8.
(obsolete)A promiscuous woman; a harlot or wench; a prostitute.
- 9.
A mob cap.
c. 1773-1774, Oliver Goldsmith, letter to Mrs Bunbury cover their faces with mobs
- 10.
(abbreviation, alt of)Abbreviation of mobile phone.
Đồng nghĩa: cell
- 11.
(video games) A creature or non-player character, especially one meant to be fought or killed.
Đồng nghĩa: mobile
- 12.
(Japanese)(chiefly Japanese fiction) A background character in general.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To crowd around (someone), sometimes with hostility.
The fans mobbed a well-dressed couple who resembled their idols.
- 2.
(transitive)To crowd into or around a place.
The shoppers mobbed the store on the first day of the sale.
- 3.
(transitive)To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl.
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From Middle English mob, short for mobile, from Latin mōbile (vulgus) (fickle (crowd)).