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mob up

mob up verb: to form a mob (i.e. a large group).

Verb

mob up (third-person singular simple present mobs up, present participle mobbing up, simple past and past participle mobbed up)

  1. (informal, intransitive) To form a mob (i.e. a large group).
  2. (informal, intransitive) To join, ally with or be beholden to the Mafia.
  3. (informal, rare, transitive) To gang up on.
    • Gooderson tells me you were not unadjacent to mobbing up R.B.-J. and Sargent in the changing-rooms, Healey.1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 18
    • Islam is no different from other religions. You all should stop treating it as if your^([sic]) nazis mobbing up a Jewish crowd.2002 March 8, Demothios, “How will it all end?”, in alt.religion.islam (Usenet), archived from the original on 26 Mar 2026

Forms of mob up

third-person singular presentmobs up
present participlemobbing up
past participlemobbed up
pastmobbed up

Questions about mob up

What does mob up mean?
Mob up means to form a mob (i.e. a large group).
What part of speech is mob up?
Mob up is a verb.
What is the past tense of mob up?
The past tense of mob up is mobbed up.

Words near mob up in the dictionary

  1. mob mentality
  2. mob programming
  3. mob rule
  4. mob rules
  5. mob stocking
  6. mob up
  7. mob wife
  8. mob wives
  9. mob-handed
  10. mob-handedly
  11. mob-handedness

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