Synonyms for mob
mɒbmob

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1. mob

   The populace are poor and ignorant, but may be law-abiding; a mob is disorderly and lawless, but may be rich and influential. The rabble is despicable, worthless, purposeless; a mob may have effective desperate purpose. A crowd may be drawn by mere curiosity; some strong, pervading excitement is needed to make it a mob. Compare PEOPLE.

   Synonyms:
   canaille, crowd, dregs of the people, lower classes, masses, populace, rabble, the vulgar

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1. mob

   Synonyms:
   disorderly crowd, tumultuous rabble, rude multitude

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1. mob, rabble, routnoun

   a disorderly crowd of people

   Synonyms:
   rabble, ragtag and bobtail, syndicate, pack, crime syndicate, ragtag, rout, gang, riffraff, family, ring

2. syndicate, crime syndicate, mob, familynoun

   a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities

   Synonyms:
   kinsfolk, crime syndicate, kinfolk, folk, family line, pack, gang, pool, family unit, kinsperson, class, home, category, rabble, family, rout, house, consortium, ring, household, fellowship, sept, kin, phratry, menage, syndicate

3. gang, pack, ring, mobverb

   an association of criminals

   "police tried to break up the gang"; "a pack of thieves"

   Synonyms:
   bunch, ringing, annulus, hoop, coterie, battalion, pack, gang, plurality, work party, ingroup, large number, anchor ring, crowd, rabble, halo, multitude, rout, family, clique, inner circle, crime syndicate, closed chain, camp, ring, doughnut, crew, tintinnabulation, band, face pack, syndicate

4. throng, mob, pack, pile, jamverb

   press tightly together or cram

   "The crowd packed the auditorium"

   Synonyms:
   wad, pile, ram, backpack, jampack, pack, obstruct, take, heap, crush, tamp, block, occlude, load down, impede, tamp down, bundle, chock up, throng, stack, carry, obturate, cram, jam, close up, compact

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1. mobnoun

   Synonyms:
   tumultuous rabble, rude multitude, lawless crowd

2. mobnoun

   Synonyms:
   populace, CANAILLE, riff-raff, lower orders, vulgar herd, scum of society, dregs of the people, rag-tag-and-bob-tail

3. mobnoun

   Synonyms:
   mob-cap

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1. mobnoun

   Synonyms:
   rabble, rabblerout, populace, canaille, riffraff

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1. List of paraphrases for "mob":

   mafia, crowd, slc, mobs, underworld, eip, fmt, wfc, moped, ppc, cfp, peat, gang, bom, rabble

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1. Paul Udoto:

   The mob had formed and in the process somebody got injured, and by the time the veterinary and security teams got to the ground it was already beyond salvation, with that commotion we risked more injuries or even possible deaths.

2. Van Zile:

   Suppose I was a Jew on the campus of UMass Boston and I had to share public space with these folks, these people may, you know, if they're willing to mob me in broad daylight in the streets of Boston, the way they did, what do you think they're going to do to a Jew on their campus, when they don't think anyone is looking? And that's the thing that I find very, very concerning.

3. Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell:

   The physical violence we experienced was horrific and devastating, my fellow officers and I were punched, kicked, shoved, sprayed with chemical irritants and even blinded with eye-damaging lasers by a violent mob who apparently saw us, law enforcement, officers dedicated to ironically protecting them as Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell citizens, as an impediment to their attempted insurrection.

4. William Penn:

   Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

5. Paul Smith:

   All of a sudden, one particular flight got canceled, and a mob ensued up here at the front counter, in front of everyone else who had been waiting in line.