Mob /(?)/

Mob

n.
  1. A mobcap.

Mob

v. t.
  1. To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl. [R.]

Mob

n.
  1. The lower classes of a community; the populace, or the lowest part of it.
    A cluster of mob were making themselves merry with their betters.
  2. A throng; a rabble; esp., an unlawful or riotous assembly; a disorderly crowd.
    The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease.
    Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.
    — Madison.
    Confused by brainless mobs.
  3. A criminal organization or organized criminal gangs, collectively; the Mafia; the syndicate; as, he was a lawyer for the mob.

Phrases & Compounds
Mob law
law administered by the mob; lynch law.
Swell mob
well dressed thieves and swindlers, regarded collectively.

Mob

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Mobbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Mobbing

  1. To crowd about, as a mob, and attack or annoy; as, to mob a house or a person.