Mob
English
editEtymology
editFrom the common noun sense, capitalized and used as a proper name.
Proper noun
editMob
- The Mafia: any particular mafia, mentioned uniquely within the discussion's established or implicit context, usually and especially the Sicilian–Italian–Italian-American one (especially in American English) but occasionally others (e.g., the Russian one, the Japanese one).
- The masses, especially the 'great unwashed masses': the general population, or (yet more specifically) the rabble thereof, viewed as one mob of unruly, disorganized people predisposed to violence and malevolence.
- tempted to ascribe Poe's narrators' mentions of the Mob to misanthropy in the author himself
German
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editMob m (strong, genitive Mobs, plural Mobs)
- mob (unruly group of people)
Declension
editDeclension of Mob [masculine, strong]