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US
/ˈmɑb/
]
[ UK /mˈɒb/ ]
[ UK /mˈɒb/ ]
VERB
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press tightly together or cram
The crowd packed the auditorium
NOUN
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an association of criminals
police tried to break up the gang
a pack of thieves - a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
- a disorderly crowd of people
How To Use mob In A Sentence
- A great deal of the nudge-nudge wink-wink routine by the young upwardly mobile male executives was the usual response to her presence.
- Neo-Liberal leadership is a lot like the mob: "Yooz can take de money or yooz can have terrible tings happen to ya."
- A perfect mob of street urchins, loafers, shop-men and bar-keepers who could spare a bit of time, lined up in front of the Palace Hotel and watched the plaid-coated, gray-capped visitors in short knickerbockers and golf stockings puff their pipes around the bar and call for "Porter and h'ale, 'alf and The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras
- You can do a lot of that from our facility, but eventually a mobile system to inspect parts on wing is where we are going to be positioned.
- With automobile insurance, for example, an insurance company accepts part of the risk that you will be involved in a car accident. Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice
- This enables more active forms of mobilization, with many memberships engaged in various forms of collective action, often for the first times in their history.
- Use of a University-owned mobile telephone and mobile telephone airtime service is intended for official University business.
- It had multiple shooters, multiple locations, mobile threats, willingness to fight the first responders and follow-on SWAT/commando units, well-equipped and well-trained operatives, and a willingness to die. Cliff Schecter: The Terrorist and the Terror Watch List
- This came after scores of pro-Uribe legislators and other officials were indicted on conspiracy charges involving so-called demobilized paramilitaries. Council on Hemispheric Affairs
- This is due to the then nonexistent mobilization of what is called today the "civil society."