the mob / mɒb /

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the mob3 个定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. a disorderly or riotous crowd of people.
  2. a crowd bent on or engaged in lawless violence.
  3. any group or collection of persons or things.
adj. 形容词 adjective
  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of a lawless, irrational, disorderly, or riotous crowd: mob rule; mob instincts.
  2. directed at or reflecting the lowest intellectual level of the common people: mob appeal; the mob mentality.
v. 有主动词 verb

mobbed, mob·bing.

  1. to crowd around noisily, as from curiosity or hostility: Spectators mobbed the courtroom.
  2. to attack in a riotous mob: The crowd mobbed the consulate.
  3. Fox Hunting. to chop.

the mob 近义词

the mob

等同于 organized crime

the mob

等同于 Cosa Nostra

更多the mob例句

  1. Fort Lauderdale resident Chris Nelson told the newspaper that his group, ReOpen South Florida, organized the “flash mob.”
  2. As word got out about the shortages, mobs began breaking into pharmacies to secure medicine.
  3. Attorney General Bill Barr similarly denounced “mob violence.”
  4. For his part, Sethi has tried to target conservatives who might be upset with the anti-police brutality protests following George Floyd’s death, asking if they’re “sick of the mobs yet.”
  5. The highest form of political courage is doing the right thing when the mob is against it.
  6. General Brent Scowcroft, national security adviser to the first President Bush, shuffled head-down through the mob.
  7. She apparently could even pick out her man of choice in a post-concert mob.
  8. Moments later, a mob of about 25 young men burst through the door and unleashed a brutal attack on Singh.
  9. Rather than helping though, policemen were actually complicit in the mob violence.
  10. The parliament house and library of the British provinces, at Montreal, burned by a mob.
  11. The moon rose on a terrified mob trudging or riding the forty miles of road between Meerut and the Mogul capital.
  12. Two artillery subalterns who had fought their way through a mob stricken with panic for the moment, soon arrived.
  13. The mob of relatives and friends wrecked and burned the castle, massacring the retainers to a man.
  14. They are quite sure "the mob" will do no harm if it is vigilantly watched and thoroughly overawed.