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smart mobs

smart mobs is the plural of smart mob.

Meaning of smart mob

Noun

smart mob (plural smart mobs)

  1. A group whose members do not know each other but are able to coordinate their actions through digital communication.
    • Smart mobs consist of people who are able to act in concert even if they don't know each other. The people who make up smart mobs cooperate in ways never before possible because they carry devices that possess both communication and computing capabilities.2002, Howard Rheingold, Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution, Cambridge, M.A.: Perseus Publishing, →ISBN, page xii

Questions about smart mobs

What is smart mobs the plural of?
Smart mobs is the plural of smart mob.

Words near smart mobs in the dictionary

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