Mob
English
Etymology
From the common noun sense, capitalized and used as a proper name.
Proper noun
Mob
- 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).
- 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.
- tempted to ascribe Poe's narrators' mentions of the Mob to misanthropy in the author himself
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɔp/
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Declension
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