mob
verb/mɒb/
/mɑːb/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they mob | /mɒb/ /mɑːb/ |
| he / she / it mobs | /mɒbz/ /mɑːbz/ |
| past simple mobbed | /mɒbd/ /mɑːbd/ |
| past participle mobbed | /mɒbd/ /mɑːbd/ |
| -ing form mobbing | /ˈmɒbɪŋ/ /ˈmɑːbɪŋ/ |
- mob something if a crowd of birds or animals mob another bird or animal, they gather round it and attack it
- Adult birds come over to mob the predator while the chicks take cover.
- [usually passive] if a person is mobbed by a crowd of people, the crowd gathers round them in order to see them and try and get their attention, sometimes in a slightly aggressive way synonym besiege
- be mobbed (by somebody) The star was mobbed by eager fans.
Word Originlate 17th cent.: abbreviation of archaic mobile, short for Latin mobile vulgus ‘excitable crowd’.
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