mob

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a disorderly crowd of people
noun a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
noun an association of criminals

From Middle English mob, short for mobile, from Latin mōbile (vulgus) (“fickle (crowd)”).

Not the mob, they swear. — Terminal Compromise, Winn Schwartau
The greedy mob gone away. — The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition, Rudyard Kipling
The mob of men was bleeding. — The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, Stephen Crane

rabble, rout

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