English Dictionary

mob

/mɒb/

noun

A large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action. / (archaic) The lower classes of a community; the rabble.

The mob gathered outside the courthouse, demanding justice.

意味（1）

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.

意味（2）

(archaic) The lower classes of a community; the rabble.

A cluster of mob, who were making themselves merry with their betters.

意味（3）

(collective noun) A group of animals such as horses or cattle.

意味（4）

(collective noun) A group of kangaroos.

意味（5）

(collective noun) A flock of emus.

意味（6）

A mafia: a group that engages in organized crime.

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.

意味（7）

(video games) A non-player character, especially one that exists to be fought or killed to further the progression of the story or game.

You can't win with small, balanced groups. You have to zerg the mob with a high number of players.

意味（8）

(Australian Aboriginal) A group of Aboriginal people associated with an extended family group, clan group or wider community group, from a particular place or country.

There’s nothing like local knowledge and after thousands of years living here the Noongar mob understand this land better than anyone, so it makes sense for them to tap into the lucrative tourism industry.