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the mob

/mob/US // mɒb //UK // (mɒb) //

暴徒,暴民,黑帮,黑社会

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    • : a disorderly or riotous crowd of people.
    • : a crowd bent on or engaged in lawless violence.
    • : any group or collection of persons or things.
    • : the common people; the masses; populace or multitude.
    • : a criminal gang, especially one involved in drug trafficking, extortion, etc.
    • : the Mob, Mafia.
    • : Sociology. a group of persons stimulating one another to excitement and losing ordinary rational control over their activity.
    • : a flock, herd, or drove of animals: a mob of sheep.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or characteristic of a lawless, irrational, disorderly, or riotous crowd: mob rule; mob instincts.
    • : directed at or reflecting the lowest intellectual level of the common people: mob appeal; the mob mentality.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    mobbed, mob·bing.

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

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Examples

  • Fort Lauderdale resident Chris Nelson told the newspaper that his group, ReOpen South Florida, organized the “flash mob.”

  • As word got out about the shortages, mobs began breaking into pharmacies to secure medicine.

  • Attorney General Bill Barr similarly denounced “mob violence.”

  • 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.”

  • The highest form of political courage is doing the right thing when the mob is against it.

  • General Brent Scowcroft, national security adviser to the first President Bush, shuffled head-down through the mob.

  • She apparently could even pick out her man of choice in a post-concert mob.

  • Moments later, a mob of about 25 young men burst through the door and unleashed a brutal attack on Singh.

  • Rather than helping though, policemen were actually complicit in the mob violence.

  • The parliament house and library of the British provinces, at Montreal, burned by a mob.

  • The moon rose on a terrified mob trudging or riding the forty miles of road between Meerut and the Mogul capital.

  • Two artillery subalterns who had fought their way through a mob stricken with panic for the moment, soon arrived.

  • The mob of relatives and friends wrecked and burned the castle, massacring the retainers to a man.

  • They are quite sure "the mob" will do no harm if it is vigilantly watched and thoroughly overawed.