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antimob

antimob adjective: opposing the actions of a mob.

Adjective

antimob (comparative more antimob, superlative most antimob)

  1. Opposing the actions of a mob.
    • By 1811 and 1812, magistrates like De Witt Clinton used the antimob rhetoric of the late 1790s and moved forcefully to restrain political popular disorder.1987, Paul A. Gilje, The Road to Mobocracy, page 100
    • Some had been killed for the offense, one on the basis of a child's schoolyard report of her father's antimob comments at the dinner table.2002, Robert M. Utley, Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers, page 261

Forms of antimob

comparativemore antimob
superlativemost antimob

Origin of antimob

From anti- + mob.

Questions about antimob

What does antimob mean?
Antimob means opposing the actions of a mob.
What part of speech is antimob?
Antimob is an adjective.

Words near antimob in the dictionary

  1. antimitosis
  2. antimitotic
  3. antimitotics
  4. antimixing
  5. antimnemonic
  6. antimob
  7. antimodal
  8. antimode
  9. antimodel
  10. antimodels
  11. antimodern

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