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.
The lower classes of a community; the rabble.
A cluster of mob, who were making themselves merry with their betters.
A promiscuous woman; a harlot or wench; a prostitute.
A mob cap.
c. 1773-1774, Oliver Goldsmith, letter to Mrs Bunbury cover their faces with mobs
A creature or non-player character, especially one meant to be fought or killed.
Instead of fighting the mobs myself someone led me around to "help" me level; […]
A background character in general.
Initialism of mother of the bride.
To crowd around (someone), sometimes with hostility.
The fans mobbed a well-dressed couple who resembled their idols.
To crowd into or around a place.
The Mafia: any particular mafia, mentioned uniquely within the discussion's established or implicit context, usually and especially the Sicilian–Italian–Italian-American one (especially in American English) but occasionally others (e.g., the Russian one, the Japanese one).
The campfires provide enough plain old regular visible light to show this sorry affair for what it is: a bunch of demented Boy Scouts, a jamboree without merit badges or hygiene. With the IR supered on top of the visible, she can also see vague, spectral red faces out in the shadows where her unassisted eyes would only see darkness. These new Knight Visions cost her a big wad of her Mob drug-running money. Just the kind of thing Mom had in mind when she insisted Y.T. get a part-time job.
The masses, especially the 'great unwashed masses': the general population, or rabble, viewed as one mob of unruly, disorganized people predisposed to violence and malevolence.
Initialism of man overboard, used e.g. on the emergency button of a satellite navigator. By pushing the button the operator stores the coordinates of a man overboard incident for easy access.
Initialism of mesio occlusal buccal.
Initialism of missing on blog, the act of abandoning ones blog (or weblog) for an extended period of time.
From Middle English mob, short for mobile, from Latin mōbile (vulgus) (“fickle (crowd)”).
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The shoppers mobbed the store on the first day of the sale.
To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl.
tempted to ascribe Poe's narrators' mentions of the Mob to misanthropy in the author himself