mob

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /mɒb/    美 /mɑb/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action.
    — Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.
  2. A promiscuous woman; a harlot or wench; a prostitute. obsolete
  3. Abbreviation of mobile phone. abbreviation,alt-of
  4. The lower classes of a community; the rabble. archaic
    — A cluster of mob, who were making themselves merry with their betters.
  5. A mob cap.
    — c. 1773-1774, Oliver Goldsmith, letter to Mrs Bunbury cover their faces with mobs
  6. A creature or non-player character, especially one meant to be fought or killed.
    — Instead of fighting the mobs myself someone led me around to "help" me level; […]
  7. A group of animals such as horses or cattle. collective
    — Well behind the fire were the pack-saddles and a dark mob of feeding horses[.]
  8. A background character in general. Japanese
  9. (collective) A group of kangaroos. Australia
  10. (collective) A group of emus. Australia
  11. A mafia: a group that engages in organized crime.
    — The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
  12. A group of Aboriginal people associated with an extended family group, clan group or wider community group, from a particular place or country.
    — There’s nothing like local knowledge and after thousands of years living here the Noongar mob understand this land better than anyone, so it makes sense for them to tap into the lucrative tourism industry.
动词 v.
  1. To crowd around (someone), sometimes with hostility. transitive
    — The fans mobbed a well-dressed couple who resembled their idols.
  2. To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl. transitive
  3. To crowd into or around a place. transitive
    — The shoppers mobbed the store on the first day of the sale.

词形变化

mobs plural mobs present,singular,third-person mobbing participle,present mobbed participle,past mobbed past mobs plural mobs present,singular,third-person mobbing participle,present mobbed participle,past mobbed past mobs plural

词汇关系

衍生词
angry mob antimob cybermob flashmob flash mob gopher mob heavy mob King Mob lynch mob meal mob mobber mobbish mobbism mobbist mob-handed mob handed mob-handedly mob-handedness mob law moble moblike mob mentality mobmobile mobocracy mobocrat mob programming mobproof mob rule mobsman mobster mob stocking Mobtown mob wife rent-a-mob smart mob swell mob trash mob Twittermob vote mob woke mob mob up mob cap

词源

词源 1
From Middle English mob, short for mobile, from Latin mōbile (vulgus) (“fickle (crowd)”).
词源 2
Alteration of mab.
词源 3
Clipping of mobile. The video-gaming sense is sometimes reported as an abbreviation of man or beast or of mobile object, but these are backronyms.
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