Definition of mob

"mob" in the noun sense

1. mob, rabble, rout

a disorderly crowd of people

2. syndicate, crime syndicate, mob, family

a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities

3. gang, pack, ring, mob

an association of criminals

"police tried to break up the gang"

"a pack of thieves"

"mob" in the verb sense

1. throng, mob, pack, pile, jam

press tightly together or cram

"The crowd packed the auditorium"

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Quotations for mob

Mobs are multiplied ignorance. [ Sir W. Jones ]

Fame is in the keeping of the mob. [ Proverb ]

The multitude is always in the wrong. [ Roscommon ]

The mob has many heads, but no brains. [ Proverb ]

The many-headed monster, (i.e. the mob).

License they mean when they cry liberty. [ Milton ]

The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease. [ Pope ]

The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain. [ Goethe ]

The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils. [ Dryden ]

Against the wild-fire of the mob there is no defense. [ Proverb ]

It is the proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob. [ Seneca ]

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. [ Emerson ]

It has been very truly said that the mob has many beads, but no brains. [ Rivarol ]

The multitude unawed is insolent; Once seized with fear, contemptible and vain. [ Mallet ]

The blind monster with uncounted heads, the still discordant, wavering multitude. [ William Shakespeare ]

The government will take the fairest of names, but the worst of realities - mob rule. [ Polybius ]

Passion may not unfitly be termed the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason. [ William Penn ]

I am always ill at ease when tumults arise among the mob - people who have nothing to lose. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The Roman mob follows the lead of fortune, as it always does, and hates those that are condemned. [ Juv ]

The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness. [ Joubert ]

Mankind in the gross is a gaping monster, that loves to be deceived, and has seldom been disappointed. [ Mackenzie ]

The fickle mob, how they are driven round by every wind that blows! Woe to him who leans on this reed! [ Friedrich Schiller ]

The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus, - strong to execute, but blind to perceive. [ Colton ]

The mob have neither judgment nor principle, - ready to bawl at night for the reverse of what they desired in the morning. [ Tacitus ]

'Tis ever thus: indulgence spoils the base; Raising up pride, and lawless turbulence. Like noxious vapors from the fulsome marsh When morning shines upon it. [ Joanna Baillie ]

Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true wit or good sense never excited a laugh since the creation of the world. [ Chesterfield ]

The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under jour cudgel; but; should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you. [ Jane Porter ]

Let there be an entire abstinence from intoxicating drinks throughout this country during the period of a single generation, and a mob would be as impossible as combustion without oxygen. [ Horace Mann ]

mob in Scrabble®

The word mob is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

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mob in Words With Friends™

The word mob is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

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Words within the letters of mob

3 letter words in mob (1 word)

mob + 1 blank (8 words)

Words containing the sequence mob

Words with mob in them (142 words)

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Words that end with mob (2 words)

Word Growth involving mob

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Longer words containing mob

amobarbital

anemobiagraph anemobiagraphs

automobiling

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bromobenzene dibromobenzene dibromobenzenes

bromobenzyl bromobenzyls

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dermoblast dermoblasts

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haemoblast haemoblastic

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immobilism

isothermobath isothermobathic

isothermobath isothermobaths

lemmoblast lemmoblastic

lemmoblast lemmoblasts

mobbed demobbed

mobber mobbers

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mobbish

mobile airmobile

mobile automobile automobiled

mobile automobile automobiles

mobile bookmobile bookmobiles

mobile immobile immobiles

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mobile nonmobile

mobile pimpmobile pimpmobiles

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mobilizable

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thermobarograph thermobarographs

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thermobatteries

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