mobs

Noun

mob (plural mobs)

1. A large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action.
   • Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.February 13, 1788, James Madison, Jr., Federalist No. 55
2. (archaic) The lower classes of a community; the rabble.
   • A cluster of mob, who were making themselves merry with their betters.1715 May 31 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 44. Friday, May 21. [1715.]”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] Jacob...
3. (collective) A group of animals of any kind.
   • Well behind the fire were the pack-saddles and a dark mob of feeding horses[.]1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 11
   1. (collective) A group of kangaroos.
      • The leader of a mob of kangaroos is the strongest and usually the largest male in the group.2004, Louise Spilsbury, Richard Spilsbury, A Mob of Kangaroos, Heinemann Library, page 9
   2. (broadly, collective) A group of any marsupial.
      • There must be a whole mob of wombats living in here!2024, Tylissa Elisara, Wurrtoo: The Wombat Who Fell in Love with the Sky, Hachette Australia
   3. (collective) A group of emus.
      • Without a second's delay another great rushing comes nearer. "By Jove! a mob of emus," says the old hunter.1886, Percy Clarke, The "new Chum" in Australia, Or, The Scenery, Life, and Manners of Australians in Town and Country, page 218

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