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mob (mobile vulgus)
1. A large and unruly crowd of people.
2. Ordinary people; especially, when thought of collectively as unintelligent or irrational.
3. To crowd around someone or something noisily and excitedly.
4. To crowd into and to fill a place.
5. An indiscriminate or loosely associated group of people or things; for example, a mob of boats that are in the harbor.
6. To crowd around and to jostle or to annoy someone; especially, in anger or excessive enthusiasm: "The eager fans mobbed the popular singers."
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mob (MAHB) (noun)
1. A large crowd or group of people who are upset about something or who are out of control: The violent mob smashed store windows, car windows, and were generally destructive.
2. A large number of individuals: The winning team was greeted and surrounded by a mob of excited fans.
mob (MAHB) (verb)
1. To move close to someone, or a group, in an excited way: The actor's fans would mob him whenever he and his wife appeared in public.
2. To come together in a place when there are crowds of other people: The shoppers were expected to mob the stores when they started to reduce the prices; indeed, the stores were mobbed with women who were trying to get things at much lower costs.

The mob in the parking lot was highly excited by the mob of players swarming out of the stadium. They all agreed to mob at the local pub for fish and chips before heading home.

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(Greek: mob [people])