Mob

Mob

Mob may refer to:

  • A crowd (of people, from Latin mobile vulgus "fickle commoners":
  • An angry mob; see Ochlocracy
  • A criminal gang
  • In American English, organized crime; slang for Mafia or American Mafia
  • Mobbing, human bullying behaviour
  • Animal mobbing behavior
  • Mobbing (Scots law)
  • Mob (computer gaming), a monster or non-player character in a computer game, short for "mobile"
  • The Mobile Party appealed to by an English politician lacking support in Parliament (17th & 18th centuries). "A politician who lacked backing in Parliament referred to his “mobile party”— the people in the streets. (This was the origin of “mob.”)" T.R. Fehrenbach

Acronyms

  • Mobile Regional Airport (IATA airport code), located in Mobile, Alabama
  • Main Operating Base, an overseas, permanently manned, well protected base, used to support permanently deployed forces, and with robust sea and/or air access
  • Mobile offshore base, a concept for supporting military operations where conventional land bases are not available
  • Man overboard, a person has fallen off a boat or ship into the water and is in need of rescue
  • Magyar Olimpiai Bizottság, National Olympic Committee of Hungary
  • Mail-order bride, a woman who publishes her intent to marry someone from another country
  • Member of Bloods, a member of the Bloods street gang
  • Mars or Bust, a slogan used within the American Scientific Community to promote a manned space mission to the planet Mars
  • Mission of Burma, an American post-punk band formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1979
  • Montreux-Oberland Bernois, Swiss railway
  • Movable object block, used in computer graphics
  • Marching Owl Band, the Rice University "marching band"
  • Motos Operacionais de Bombeiros, motorcycles used as ambulances in Brazil: see Motorcycle ambulance#Brazil

See also

  • The Mob (disambiguation)
  • Flash mob, social phenomenon
  • Smart mob, a temporary self-structuring social organization, coordinated through telecommunication
  • Mobs, a short-lived 1930 pulp magazine

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  • MOB — may refer to:* An unruly crowd (of people) see: ** Mob rule (as in mobile vulgus, fickle crowd) ** Flash mob (social phenomenon) ** Smart mob (a temporary self structuring social organization, coordinated through telecommunication) * A collection …   Wikipedia

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  • 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. [1913 Webster] A cluster of mob were making themselves merry with their betters. Addison. [1913… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Mob 47 — Origin Stockholm, Sweden Genres D beat, hardcore punk Years active 1982–1987, 2005–present Website Mob47.se …   Wikipedia

  • mob|oc|ra|cy — «mob OK ruh see», noun, plural cies. 1. political control by a mob; mob rule: »If Congress…refuses to appropriate money to maintain the judiciary and executive departments, the result is mobocracy (Baltimore Sun). 2. the mob as a ruling class …   Useful english dictionary

  • 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. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Mob — Sm Pöbel (ursprünglich bezogen auf Londoner Verhältnisse) erw. stil. (18. Jh.) Entlehnung. Entlehnt aus ne. mob. Dieses ist gekürzt aus ne. mobile beweglich , das seinerseits zitiert ist aus l. mōbile vulgus die aufgewiegelte Menge bei Claudian… …   Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache

  • mob — ► NOUN 1) a disorderly crowd of people. 2) Brit. informal a group of people. 3) (the Mob) N. Amer. the Mafia. 4) (the mob) informal, derogatory the ordinary people. 5) Austral./NZ a flock or herd of animals …   English terms dictionary

  • Mob — Mob, n. [See {Mobcap}.] A mobcap. Goldsmith. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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