Usually means: Group acting with unruly behavior.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word mob:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. mob: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mob, the Mob, the mob: Merriam-Webster
  3. mob, the Mob, the mob: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mob: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mob: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mob: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mob, mob: Wordnik
  8. mob: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. MOB, mob: Wiktionary
  10. mob: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. mob: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. mob: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. MOB, the mob: Dictionary.com
  14. mob: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. mob: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. M.O.B. (Project Pat album), MOB, Mob (gaming), Mob (video games), Mob (video gaming), Mob, The Mob (American band), The Mob (American hardcore band), The Mob (American rock band), The Mob (British band), The Mob (British punk band), The Mob (Chicago band), The Mob (company), The Mob (disambiguation), The Mob (film), The Mob (film company), The Mob (melodic rock band), The Mob, The mob: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Mob: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. mob: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. mob: Rhymezone
  20. Mob (m), mob: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. mob: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. MOB: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Mob: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. mob: FreeDictionary.org
  25. mob: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. The Mob, mob: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. mob: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Mob, mob: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  2. mob: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MOB: UK Medical Acronyms
  2. The Mob, mob: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. MOB: Acronym Finder
  3. MOB: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MOB (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. mob, mob, mob, mob, mob: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  4. M.O.B, M.O.B, The Mob, moB(f): Urban Dictionary
  5. Mob: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

(Note: See mobbed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action.
noun:  (archaic) The lower classes of a community; the rabble.
noun:  (collective noun) A group of animals such as horses or cattle.
noun:  (collective noun) A group of kangaroos.
noun:  (collective noun) A flock of emus.
noun:  A mafia: a group that engages in organized crime.
noun:  (Australian Aboriginal) A group of Aboriginal people associated with an extended family group, clan group or wider community group, from a particular place or country.
verb:  (transitive) To crowd around (someone), sometimes with hostility.
verb:  (transitive) To crowd into or around a place.
noun:  (obsolete) A promiscuous woman; a harlot or wench; a prostitute.
noun:  A mob cap.
verb:  (transitive) To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl.
noun:  (video games) A non-player character, especially one that exists to be fought or killed to further the progression of the story or game.
noun:  (chiefly Japanese media) A background character in general.
noun:  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).
noun:  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.
noun:  Abbreviation of mobile phone. [A portable telephone that connects with the telephone network over radio wave transmission.]
adjective:  (dentistry) Initialism of mesio occlusal buccal.
adjective:  Initialism of missing on blog, the act of abandoning ones blog (or weblog) for an extended period of time
noun:  Initialism of mother of the bride.

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