Mob

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See also: mob, MOB, and -mob

English

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Etymology

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From the common noun sense, capitalized and used as a proper name.

Proper noun

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Mob

  1. 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).
  2. The masses, especially the 'great unwashed masses': the general population, or (yet more specifically) the rabble thereof, viewed as one mob of unruly, disorganized people predisposed to violence and malevolence.
    tempted to ascribe Poe's narrators' mentions of the Mob to misanthropy in the author himself

German

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English mob.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /mɔp/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

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Mob m (strong, genitive Mobs, plural Mobs)

  1. mob (unruly group of people)

Declension

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Further reading

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  • Mob” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • Mob” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • Mob” in Duden online
  • Mob” in OpenThesaurus.de
  • Mob on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de