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PRONUNCIATION OF FLASH MOB

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FLASH MOB

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Flash mob is a noun.
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WHAT DOES FLASH MOB MEAN IN ENGLISH?

flash mob

Flash mob

A flash mob is a group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual and seemingly pointless act for a brief time, then quickly disperse, often for the purposes of entertainment, satire, and artistic expression. Flash mobs are organized via telecommunications, social media, or viral emails. The term, coined in 2003, is generally not applied to events and performances organized for the purposes of politics, commercial advertisement, publicity stunts that involve public relation firms, or paid professionals. In these cases of a planned purpose for the social activity in question, the term smart mobs is often applied instead. The term is also used to describe robberies and assaults perpetrated suddenly by large numbers of people, though some commentators have objected to this usage in cases where the perpetrators know each other beforehand and do not use social media to organize.

Definition of flash mob in the English dictionary

The definition of flash mob in the dictionary is a group of people coordinated by email and social media to meet to perform some predetermined action at a particular place and time and then disperse quickly.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FLASH MOB

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WORDS THAT END LIKE FLASH MOB

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Jacob
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Synonyms and antonyms of flash mob in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «flash mob» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FLASH MOB

Find out the translation of flash mob to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of flash mob from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «flash mob» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

快闪族
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

flash mob
570 millions of speakers

English

flash mob
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

फ्लैश भीड़
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

فلاش الغوغاء
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

флеш-моб
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

flash mob
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ফ্ল্যাশ দৌড়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

flash mob
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mob flash
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Flash Mob
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

フラッシュモブ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

플래시 몹
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lampu kilat
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

flash mob
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஃபிளாஷ் கும்பல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फ्लॅश मॉब
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Flaş mob
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

flash mob
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

flash mob
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

флеш - моб
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Flash mob
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

flash mob
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

flash mob
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

flash mob
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

flash mob
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of flash mob

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FLASH MOB»

The term «flash mob» is quite widely used and occupies the 31.174 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about flash mob

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FLASH MOB»

Discover the use of flash mob in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to flash mob and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Embodied Consciousness: Performance Technologies
the Oprah Feelin' flash mob have accumulated a total of over 15.6 million views.4 Additionally, this particular flash mob is embedded into the Oprah.com website5 as well as the Blackeyedpeas.dipdive.com6 website – among others – and so it ...
Jade Rosina McCutcheon, Barbara Sellers-Young, 2013
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The Globalization of Strangeness
Wasik does not himself draw out the relationship between flash mobs and the strangers who largely comprise them. But many features of the flash mob make them attractive to strangers: the arbitrary date and time of meetings, the short window ...
Chris Rumford, 2013
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Flash Mob to Go
Only Finn, their road manager, can save them. But one man on his own is no match for the might of MIB!The GirlfriendZ series is published by Ransom Publishing, specialists in books for reluctant and struggling readers.
Roger Hurn, 2013
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Black Citymakers: How The Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban ...
In what follows, I amplify the major arguments of the book and use events following the March 20, 2010 flash mob to provide some general take— aways and explore how this book fits into existing debates and scholarship on urban America.
Marcus Anthony Hunter, 2013
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Amateur Media: Social, Cultural and Legal Perspectives
'The T-Mobile dance'11 'The T-Mobile dance', which is accessible through T- Mobile's official YouTube channel (lifesforsharing) (and which was broadcast in the UK in 2009), associates the corporation with the spectacle of the flash mob.
Dan Hunter, 2013
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Youth and Society: The Long and Winding Road, Third Edition
1), the end result was an addition to the 2004 Oxford English Dictionary: flash mob was defined as “a public gathering of complete strangers, organized via the Internet or mobile phone, who perform a pointless act and then disperse again.
Vappu Tyyskä, 2014
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Using Social Media for Global Security
A flash mob is when people assemble suddenly in a place at a specific time. Flash mob organizers and participants usually use social media to spread word about the flash mob and help organize it. Imagine that prior analyses indicate that a ...
Ravi Gupta, Hugh Brooks, 2013
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Strategies in Action
A flash mob is rarely promoted in advance, and so it is a surprise for passers-by who, purely by chance, find themselves in the location where the event takes place. The flash mob emerged from one of the orchestra's endeavours to cast off the ...
Lise Justesen, Susanne Boch Waldorff (eds.)
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Social Media Playbook for Business: Reaching Your Online ...
Private or public social networks are now the key coordination tools to mobilize and direct a flash mob. Or as Wikipedia puts it: “The term flash mob is generally applied only to gatherings organized via telecommunications, social media, or viral ...
Tom Funk, 2011
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Market Like You Mean It: Engage Customers, Create Brand ...
A flash mob catches people unaware and it's usually exciting, uplifting, and often in your face. Those around a flash mob have to stop, listen, and take notice. 2. The viral effect. Once you see a flash mob you will tell someone; that is nearly ...
Al Lautenslager, 2014

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FLASH MOB»

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Southport schools take to the streets for Flash Mob dance
A Flash Mob of 27 schools is being held to celebrate arts and music as part of the Southport Learning Partnership Arts and Dance Festival. «Southport Visiter, Jul 15»
2
Minion Flash Mob Proposal in Times Square
He hired The Heart Bandits to coordinate a Minion flash mob right in the heart of Times Square for his marriage proposal. When he and Aranza ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
3
"Are Londoners Horrible?" Video Surprises Random Kind Strangers …
... you watch “Are Londoners Horrible?,” the “kindness experiment” in which a bunch of strangers are surprised by an adorable singing flash mob. The best part? «Bustle, Jul 15»
4
Flash dance: Community mob performs at Thursday!Fest
The flash mob is part of the library's “In Motion” themed programming, which is going on through August at all the ImagineIF libraries throughout ... «Daily Inter Lake, Jul 15»
5
Footloose flash mob hopes to break Guinness World Record
HAWKESBURY – It's not too late to register for the Footloose flash mob, which will be taking to the streets of Hawkesbury on Saturday, July 11 ... «Vankleek Hill Review, Jul 15»
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'Baby Daddy': Brad proposes to Bonnie with a flash mob - Zap2it First
Zap2it's exclusive video takes viewers behind the scenes of the flash mob scene, where Brad (Peter Porte) asks Bonnie (Melissa Peterman) to ... «Zap2it.com, Jul 15»
7
Breast-cancer fundraiser launched with flash mob
About 25 people took part in a flash mob at the St. Albert Farmers' Market last Saturday to kick off the fundraising drive leading up to the ... «St. Albert Gazette, Jul 15»
8
Flash Mob Dances to Fifth Harmony's “Worth It” in Target… And Gets …
Security shooed out the stars of Flex and Shanice, a reality show on the Oprah Winfrey Network, as they tried to film a flash mob in the middle of ... «Fanlala, Jul 15»
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Flash mob 'busts out' for Sabina
SPINNING HEADs at Parc Paragon outside Siam Paragon recently was a sudden flash of "prettiness" as actress Preechaya "Ice" ... «The Nation, Jul 15»
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Video, photos: Flash mob same-sex marriage proposal
Devin Kistler arranged the flash mob to perform as a surprise before proposing to her girlfriend, Brooke Darling. Midwest Dance Center ... «Sioux Falls Argus Leader, Jun 15»

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