Other forms: mobs
A mob is a large disorderly crowd, easily turned to violence. An angry mob, mob rule, the mob gathered.
The word carries a judgement that crowd does not — calling people a mob says they have stopped thinking individually. Mob rule means decision by whoever shouts loudest. The Mob means organised crime. Note that the word is short for the Latin mobile vulgus, the fickle crowd.
1nounmobA large disorderly crowd.
“An angry mob gathered outside the courthouse, shouting and throwing stones.”
mob is a crowd.
Short for Latin mobile vulgus, the fickle crowd, from mobilis, movable. Mobile and motion come from the same moving.
Latin
mobile — fickle (crowd)
Middle English
mob
English, today
mob
From Middle English mob, short for mobile, from Latin mobile (“fickle (crowd)”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA