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" I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony."
Clarence Thomas

Meaning of "mobs" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF MOBS

mɒbz


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MOBS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Mobs can act as a noun and an adverb.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES MOBS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Mob

Mob commonly refers to a crowd of people. Mob or mobbing may also refer to: Crowded People...

Definition of mobs in the English dictionary

The definition of mobs in the dictionary is great numbers or quantities; lots. Other definition of mobs is a great deal.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MOBS

gobs · Hobbes · Hobbs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MOBS

mobility · mobility allowance · mobility housing · mobilizable · mobilization · mobilize · mobilizer · moble · moblog · moblogger · MOBO · mobocracies · mobocracy · mobocrat · mobocratic · mobocratical · mobsman · mobster · Mobutu · moby

WORDS THAT END LIKE MOBS

abs · bs · clubs · combs · crabs · crumbs · Cubs · Doubs · Gibbs · Krebs · man boobs · May blobs · moobs · obs · odd jobs · Proverbs · scrubs · Stubbs · subs · up for grabs

Synonyms and antonyms of mobs in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «MOBS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «mobs» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «mobs» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF MOBS

Find out the translation of mobs to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of mobs from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «mobs» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

小怪
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

turbas
570 millions of speakers
en

English

mobs
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

भीड़
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الغوغاء
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

мобы
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

mobs
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

সারাদিন
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

mobs
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Perusuh
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Mobs
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

モブ
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Mobs
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mobs
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

கும்பல்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

जमावटोळी
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

mob
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

mob
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

moby
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

моби
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

mafioti
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

mobs
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

mobs
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

mobs
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

mobs
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of mobs

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MOBS»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of mobs
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «mobs».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about mobs

EXAMPLES

7 QUOTES WITH «MOBS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word mobs.
1
Susan B. Anthony
I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.
2
Epicurus
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
3
Bob Filner
I started my political career facing lynch mobs.
4
Jaron Lanier
Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.
5
Clarence Thomas
I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.
6
Irwin Winkler
I remember when 'The Right Stuff' opened in Hollywood. I got dressed that morning and drove my car down to the theatre that it was playing on, thinking that there would be mobs of people outside. When I looked, there was nobody there.
7
Owen D. Young
Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MOBS»

Discover the use of mobs in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to mobs and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
Smart Mobs takes us on a journey around the world for a preview of the next techno-cultural shift.
Howard Rheingold, 2007
2
Mobs: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry
It is still clearly of much importance today, therefore, in its widest sense, from antiquity to the writings of Elias Canetti, "Mobs" provides a context for the essays presented in this volume all of which speak to the potentially complex ...
Nancy van Deusen, Leonard Michael Koff, 2011
3
Flash Mobs: Pop Culture
Learn about Flash Mobs with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.
iMinds, 2009
4
Mad Mobs and Englishmen?: Myths and realities of the 2011 riots
With their extensive expertise in crowd behaviour and psychology, and years of research experience studying crowds, riots and hooliganism worldwide, psychologists Steve Reicher and Cliff Stott challenge the myths of the 2011 riots ...
Steve Reicher, Cliff Stott, 2011
5
Markets, Mobs & Mayhem: How to Profit From the Madness of Crowds
"This highly entertaining book is for everyone, regardless of age, wealth, or political persuasion. Menschel's delectable stories expose the roots of human behavior in a variety of fascinating situations, familiar and unfamiliar.
Robert Menschel, 2002
6
For Members Only: The Story of the Mobs Secret Judge
This is a story about a family that spans 100 years, touching down on three generations of survival, loyalty, love, death and deception while, finally, coming to a stop with more questions asked than answered.
‎2008
7
Men, Mobs, and Law: Anti-Lynching and Labor Defense in U.S. ...
DIVIn Men, Mobs, and Law, Rebecca N. Hill compares two seemingly unrelated types of leftist protest campaigns: those intended to defend labor organizers from prosecution and those seeking to memorialize lynching victims and stop the ...
Rebecca N. Hill, 2009
8
Gangsters Encyclopedia: The World's Most Notorious Mobs, ...
The book is arranged in chapters geographically showing the history of organized crime in different territories around the world, the legendary figures, the famous heists and busts and the power these organizations still exert today.
Michael Newton, 2007
9
Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle ...
Praise for Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets "This book strikes at the center of conventional wisdom.
Will Bonner, Lila Rajiva, 2010
10
Legacy of Violence: Lynch Mobs and Executions in Minnesota
He tells the story of the 1920 lynching in Duluth of three African-Americans circus workers - wrongfully accused of rape - and the anti-lynching crusade that followed.
John D. Bessler, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MOBS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term mobs is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Leadership silent while mobs rule
We are all watching our country come unraveled as raucous, sometimes violent mobs of the minority are more and more ruling our country. «Cherokee Ledger, Jul 15»
2
Hammon's success could only happen in the NBA
Don't think of it as Twitter mobs forcing the league to accept women, but rather players and executives and writers and fans informing each ... «Comcast SportsNet Washington, Jul 15»
3
John Kerry: Liar or idiot?
Iran's leaders continually urged mobs to chant, “Death to America” and never once promised to curb their export of terrorism. Why should they? «Fox News, Jul 15»
4
Why "All Lives Matter" instead of "Black Lives Matter" is such a stupid …
Reddit has been in the news of late for hateful, harrassing content--mobs of trolls piling on people and ruining their lives, under cover of ... «Boing Boing, Jul 15»
5
Radisson won't return as Vikings sponsor
No real judge or jury decided a crime was committed. Is the only time courts are right is when the results end up in the lynch mobs favor. «NBCSports.com, Jul 15»
6
Farmers' Market Fetish: Easton, PA
I've had life-altering conversations and witnessed impromptu flash mobs, musical performances and chef demonstrations. I've voluntereed ... «Paste Magazine, Jul 15»
7
Are gay rights, religious rights on a collision course?
... with the stipulations those entail) — the law is used against you, arrests are made, your tax-exempt status is stripped, mobs are storming your ... «Dallas Morning News, Jul 15»
8
Execution of Christian Mother Asia Bibi Temporarily Suspended …
... or a pattern of local police authorities cowing under pressure from mobs led by local imams, suggest this law change will have little effect.". «Christian Post, Jul 15»
9
Artist explains images of Indigenous children in 'fast-food suicide vests'
Doyle said she and her husband would go from community to community, “putting on big feeds for the mobs” out of her own pocket. “Why can't ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
10
Life for our books – books for our life
From June 17, 1242, when the mobs, incited by an apostate Jew and acting with the sanction of the pope and the king of France, threw 24 ... «Jerusalem Post Israel News, Jul 15»
REFERENCE
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