Mob

mob, n. the mobile or fickle common people: the vulgar: the rabble: a disorderly crowd, a riotous a embly: a large herd or flock.— v.t. to attack in a disorderly crowd:— pr.p. mob′bing; pa.p. mobbed.— adj. Mob′bish .— ns. Mob′-law , lynch-law; Moboc′racy , rule or ascendency exercised by the mob; Mob′ocrat , a demagogue.— adj. Mobocrat′ic .— n. Mobs′man , a well-dre ed thief or swindler—usually Swell-mobsman . [Contr. for L. mobile ( vulgus ), the fickle (multitude); movēre to move.]