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mob
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[ noun ] a disorderly crowd of people
Used in print ("Editorials"...)A British writer , Richard_Haestier , in a book , Dead_Men_Tell_Tales , recalls that in the turmoil preceding French_Revolution the body of Henry_/4 , , who had died nearly 180 years earlier , was torn to pieces by a mob . (David Stacton, The Judges of the Secret Court....)In the audience a man named Ferguson lost his head and tried to rescue a little girl from the mob , on the same principle which had led Miss_Harris to demand water . Somehow Dr._Charles_Leale was forced through the mob and squeezed_out into the dingy corridor . (Whit Masterson, Evil Come, Evil Go....)El_Dorado was surrounded by a mob . However , it was virtually impossible to screen the mob outside , even if Bonner had manpower available for the purpose . |
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[ adjective ] characteristic of a mob; disorderly or lawless
Examples "mob rule" "fanned mounting tension into mobbish terrorizing" "moblike mentality" Used in print (Barry Goldwater, "A Foreign Policy for America"...)Fearful of inviting a military showdown with the West which they could not win , the Communists seek to undermine Western power where the nuclear might of the West is irrelevant - in backwoods guerrilla skirmishes , in mob uprisings in the streets , in parliaments , in clandestine meetings of undercover conspirators , at the United_Nations , on the propaganda front , at diplomatic conferences - preferably at the highest level . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (criminal law) a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
Synonyms Used in print (Kenneth Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era...)He was also at this time , although not so interwoven in high politics and the rackets as Torrio and Capone , the most powerful and most dangerous mob leader in the Chicago underworld , the roughneck king . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (law,criminal law) an association of criminals
Examples "police tried to break up the gang" "a pack of thieves" Related terms |
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