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Synonyms of mob in English:

mob


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noun

1‘troops were called in to disperse the mob’

SYNONYMS
crowd, horde, multitude, rabble, mass, body, throng
group, host, pack, press, crush, jam, gang, gathering, swarm, assemblage
archaic rout

2‘the mob, the dregs, were to be firmly excluded from political life’

SYNONYMS
the common people, the masses, the populace, the public, the multitude, the rank and file, the commonality, the commonalty, the third estate, the plebeians, the proletariat, the peasantry, the crowd
the hoi polloi, the lower classes, the common herd, the rabble, the riff-raff, the canaille, the great unwashed, the dregs of society, the ragtag, the ragtag and bobtail, the proles, the plebs

3‘don't you get any firearms training in your mob?’

SYNONYMS
group, set, crowd, lot, circle, coterie, in-crowd, clan, faction, pack, band, ring, fraternity, brotherhood, society, troop, company, team
informal gang, bunch, lads
British informal shower

verb

1‘he was mobbed by the crowds’

SYNONYMS
surround, swarm around, besiege, jostle
harass, set upon, fall on, worry

2‘the reporters mobbed the gift shop like a crowd of souvenir-starved tourists’

SYNONYMS
crowd, crowd into, cram full, fill to overflowing, fill, pack, throng, press into, squeeze into