mob

• n. 暴民，暴徒；民众；乌合之众
• vt. 大举包围，围攻；蜂拥进入
• vi. 聚众生事，聚众滋事

缩写自拉丁语mobile vulgus,被煽动的民众，引申词义暴民，黑帮。

mob

mob: [17] Mob is famous as one of the then new ‘slang’ abbreviations against which Joseph Addison and Jonathan Swift inveighed at the beginning of the 18th century (others included pozz for positively and rep for reputation). Mob was short for mobile, which itself was a truncated form of mobile vulgus, a Latin phrase meaning ‘fickle crowd’. Latin mōbilis ‘movable’, hence metaphorically ‘fickle’ (source of English mobile [15]), came from the base of the verb movēre ‘move’ (source of English move).
=> mobile, move

mob (v.)

"to attack in a mob," 1709, from mob (n.). Meaning "to form into a mob" is from 1711. Related: Mobbed; mobbing.

mob (n.)

1680s, "disorderly part of the population, rabble," slang shortening of mobile, mobility "common people, populace, rabble" (1670s, probably with a conscious play on nobility), from Latin mobile vulgus "fickle common people" (the phrase attested c. 1600 in English), from mobile, neuter of mobilis "fickle, movable, mobile" (see mobile (adj.)). In Australia and New Zealand, used without disparagement for "a crowd." Meaning "gang of criminals working together" is from 1839, originally of thieves or pick-pockets; American English sense of "organized crime in general" is from 1927.

The Mob was not a synonym for the Mafia. It was an alliance of Jews, Italians, and a few Irishmen, some of them brilliant, who organized the supply, and often the production, of liquor during the thirteen years, ten months, and nineteen days of Prohibition. ... Their alliance -- sometimes called the Combination but never the Mafia -- was part of the urgent process of Americanizing crime. [Pete Hamill, "Why Sinatra Matters," 1998]

Mob scene "crowded place" first recorded 1922.

1. An unruly mob broke down police barricades and stormed the courtroom.

一伙暴徒捣毁了警察设置的路障冲进法庭。

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2. Bottles and cans were hurled on the terraces by the mob.

暴徒向看台扔瓶子和罐子。

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3. A mob of women laid into him with handbags and pointed shoes.

一帮女人用手提包砸他，用鞋尖踢他。

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4. They have been exercising what amounts to mob rule.

他们一直在实行相当于暴政的统治。

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5. The inspectors watched a growing mob of demonstrators gathering.

督察们看见越来越多愤怒的示威者聚集到一起。

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