| 单词 | mob |
| 释义 | mob (once / 293 pages) 1nv 2n A mob is a big, rowdy group of people. You might avoid shopping at the mall right before Christmas because you can't stand the mob of shoppers. A mob might gather around the piñata at a big birthday party or cluster in front of a music venue when tickets go on sale for a hugely popular concert. When people join one of these groups, you can also say that they mob, and "the mob" also sometimes refers to organized crime. You might describe the hundreds of people thronging the county fair on Friday night as a "mob scene." The Latin root, mobile vulgus, means "fickle common people." WORD FAMILYmob: mobbed, mobbing, mobbish, mobed, mobing, moblike, mobs, mobster+/mobster: mobsters USAGE EXAMPLESAll of his team-mates joined him, mobbing him to celebrate. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) He moves up the ranks with a rival mob, overseeing a rum-running operation. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) “We shouldn’t be running into all kinds of obstacles and face all this comprehensive mobbing just doing what we’re supposed to do,” she said. New York Times(Dec 31, 2016) 1 1n a disorderly crowd of people Syn|Hypo|Hyper rabble, rout lynch mob a mob that kills a person for some presumed offense without legal authority crowd a large number of things or people considered together 2v press tightly together or cram 2Syn|Hyper jam, pack, pile, throng crowd, crowd together to gather together in large numbers 1n a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities Syn|Hypo|Hyper crime syndicate, family, syndicate Cosa Nostra, Maffia, Mafia a crime syndicate in the United States; organized in families; believed to have important relations to the Sicilian Mafia gangdom, gangland, organized crime underworld organizations 2n an association of criminals Syn|Hypo|Hyper gang, pack, ring nest a gang of people (criminals or spies or terrorists) assembled in one locality youth ganga gang whose members are teenagers sleeper nesta nest of sleepers awaiting a prearranged signal association a formal organization of people or groups of people |
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