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flash mob

flash mob noun: a group of people who rapidly assemble, perform an unusual and seemingly pointless act, and then quickly disperse.

Noun

flash mob (plural flash mobs)

  1. A group of people who rapidly assemble, perform an unusual and seemingly pointless act, and then quickly disperse.
    • Called into being on short notice by Web sites and e-mail distribution lists, flash mobs meet at an appointed time, engage in some organized spontaneity for a few minutes, then rapidly disperse. The activities are innocent, if mysterious, and tend to bring together loose groupings of surprisingly...2003 August 4, Otto Pohl, “Berlin Journal; What: Mob Scene. Who: Strangers. Point: None.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

flash mob meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Arabic and Malay

flash mob in Hindi

group converging and dispersing quickly
फ़्लैश मॉब flaiś mŏb

flash mob in Tamil

திடீர்க் கும்பல், திடீர் நடனக்குழு

flash mob in Arabic

group converging and dispersing quickly
تَجَمُّع مُفَاجِئ tajammuʕ mufājiʔ, فْلَاش موب flāš mōb

flash mob in Malay

group converging and dispersing quickly
aksi rasa kilas

Forms of flash mob

pluralflash mobs
alternative formflashmob

Origin of flash mob

Perhaps from flash crowd, a term coined by Larry Niven in Flash Crowd (1973), a story about cheap teleportation in the future.

Words formed from flash mob

Questions about flash mob

What does flash mob mean?
Flash mob means a group of people who rapidly assemble, perform an unusual and seemingly pointless act, and then quickly disperse.
What is flash mob in Hindi?
Flash mob in Hindi is फ़्लैश मॉब (flaiś mŏb). See Flash mob meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is flash mob?
Flash mob is a noun.
What is the plural of flash mob?
The plural of flash mob is flash mobs.

Words near flash mob in the dictionary

  1. flash locks
  2. flash marriage
  3. flash marriages
  4. flash memories
  5. flash memory
  6. flash mob
  7. flash mobber
  8. flash mobbers
  9. flash mobs
  10. flash over
  11. flash overs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flash mob (page history and authors); flash mob (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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