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/mɒb/ · noun
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)
A cluster of mob, who were making themselves merry with their betters.
Well behind the fire were the pack-saddles and a dark mob of feeding horses[.]
See also: Mob, Mafia (proper noun senses for specific ones)
The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
The Greeks, displaying a characteristic often a mark of defeated armies, pursued a 'scorched earth' policy toward western Anatolia... The Turkish population was subjected to horrible atrocities by the retreating troops and accompanying civilian Christian mobs.
What if it is a mob killing? They can’t hurt me, but …
Use mob when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Mob means A large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action..
Common synonyms include mafia, Mafia, cell, mobile.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.
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