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mobs up

mobs up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of mob up.

Meaning of mob up

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

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What is mobs up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Mobs up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of mob up.

Words near mobs up in the dictionary

  1. mobos
  2. mobot
  3. mobots
  4. mobproof
  5. mobs
  6. mobs up
  7. mobsman
  8. mobsmen
  9. mobster
  10. mobsterism
  11. mobsters

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