MOB

MOB

Mob may refer to:

* An unruly crowd (of people) see:
** Mob rule (as in mobile vulgus, fickle crowd)
** Flash mob (social phenomenon)
** Smart mob (a temporary self-structuring social organization, coordinated through telecommunication)
* A collection of animals (in wool classing it refers to sheep of similar breeding that have run together).
* A group of Aborigines
* Mobile Regional Airport (IATA airport code), located in Mobile, Alabama
* Mob (computer gaming) a monster or non-player character in a computer game
* Mobbing, a form of systematic harassment
**Mobbing behavior in nature
* The Mafia is also sometimes referred to as the Mob
* Mission of Burma, spelled MoB (lower-case "o")
* Short for mobile phone

MOB as an initialism may refer to:
* Management and Organizational Behavior
* Mail-order bride
* Main Operating Base
* Man overboard
* Mobile offshore base
* Marching Owl Band
* Mobile Regional Airport
* Montreux-Oberland Bernois, Swiss railway
* Movable Object Block, used in computer graphics
* Mob (computer gaming) a monster or non-player character in a computer game
* Member of Bloods- see Bloods
* Money Over Bitches - Often said by Tupac Shakur as M.O.B. In "Blasphemy" on the album, he states it stands for "Money over bitches". It has been argued that it really stands for Member of Bloods.
* Medical Office Building
* MOB productions, the association of comic book writers Brian Michael Bendis, Michael Avon Oeming and David Mack

ee also

* The Mob
* 1 vs 100, a game show where the 100 antagonists are referred to as "The Mob"


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  • Mob — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. {{{image}}}   Sigles d une seule lettre   Sigles de deux lettres > Sigles de trois lettres …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Mob — Mob, n. [L. mobile vulgus, the movable common people. See {Mobile}, n.] 1. The lower classes of a community; the populace, or the lowest part of it. [1913 Webster] A cluster of mob were making themselves merry with their betters. Addison. [1913… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Mob 47 — Origin Stockholm, Sweden Genres D beat, hardcore punk Years active 1982–1987, 2005–present Website Mob47.se …   Wikipedia

  • Mob — may refer to: A crowd (of people, from Latin mobile vulgus fickle commoners : An angry mob; see Ochlocracy A criminal gang In American English, organized crime; slang for Mafia or American Mafia Mobbing, human bullying behaviour Animal mobbing… …   Wikipedia

  • mob|oc|ra|cy — «mob OK ruh see», noun, plural cies. 1. political control by a mob; mob rule: »If Congress…refuses to appropriate money to maintain the judiciary and executive departments, the result is mobocracy (Baltimore Sun). 2. the mob as a ruling class …   Useful english dictionary

  • Mob — Mob, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mobbed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mobbing}.] To crowd about, as a mob, and attack or annoy; as, to mob a house or a person. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Mob — Sm Pöbel (ursprünglich bezogen auf Londoner Verhältnisse) erw. stil. (18. Jh.) Entlehnung. Entlehnt aus ne. mob. Dieses ist gekürzt aus ne. mobile beweglich , das seinerseits zitiert ist aus l. mōbile vulgus die aufgewiegelte Menge bei Claudian… …   Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache

  • mob — ► NOUN 1) a disorderly crowd of people. 2) Brit. informal a group of people. 3) (the Mob) N. Amer. the Mafia. 4) (the mob) informal, derogatory the ordinary people. 5) Austral./NZ a flock or herd of animals …   English terms dictionary

  • Mob — Mob, n. [See {Mobcap}.] A mobcap. Goldsmith. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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