mob

n

1. rabble, rout, surge; horde, Huns, barbarians, Inf. mob scene.

2. crowd, throng, multitude, force, host, legion, mass; herd, pack, swarm, flock, drove, bevy, shoal, school, gaggle; jam, press, crush; tribe, crew, band, troop, group, company, party, body, gathering; assemblage, collection, accumulation, amassment, array; agglomeration, conglomeration, clump; lot, pack, bunch, batch, Inf. raft; assortment, variety, medley; ocean, sea, world.

3. populace, commonalty, vulgar masses, public, general public; hoi polloi, rank and file, great unwashed, citizenry; every Tom, Dick and Harry; proletariat, the four million, commoners, peasantry, peons; bourgeoisie, middle class; lower class, riffraff, dregs of society, ragtag and bobtail, canaille, doggery.

4. gang, syndicate, organized crime, Cosa Nostra; Mafia, hoodlums, bandits, hitmen, gangsters.

adj

5. lawless, disorderly, anarchic, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly, unbridled; riotous, violent, ferocious, frenzied, turbulent; boisterous, obstreperous, tumultuous; manic, crazy, excitable; irrational, insane, Sl. nutty, Sl. screwy, unbalanced; barbarous, ravening, wild, headstrong, intemperate.

6. vulgar, uncivilized, unpolished, ill-bred; unintelligent, uninformed; common, base, crass, proletarian, plebian; loutish, boorish, doltish, cloddish, hick.

v

7. crowd around, clamor, raise a hullabaloo, brawl; attack, assail, assault; descend on, swoop down on, march on or against; charge, rush at, raid; go at, strike at.