mobocracy.html - n.
(pl. -ies) colloq.
1 rule by a mob.
2 a ruling mob.

mobocracy.html - n.
(pl. -ies) colloq.
1 rule by a mob.
2 a ruling mob.

mobocracy.html - n.
(pl. -ies) colloq.
1 rule by a mob.
2 a ruling mob.

mobocracy.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 a disorderly crowd; a rabble.
2 (prec. by the) usu. derog. the populace.
3 colloq. a gang; an associated group of persons.
4 Austral. a flock or herd.

--v.

tr. & intr. (mobbed, mobbing)
1 tr. a crowd round in order to attack or admire. b (of a mob) attack. c US crowd into (a building).
2 intr. assemble in a mob.

mob law (or rule) law or rule imposed and enforced by a mob.

mobber n. & adj. [abbr. of mobile, short for L mobile vulgus excitable crowd: see MOBILE]

mobocracy.html - n.
hist. a woman's large indoor cap covering all the hair, worn in the 18th and early 19th c. [obs. (18th-c.) mob, orig. = slut + CAP]

mobocracy.html - adj. & n.
--adj.

1 movable; not fixed; free or able to move or flow easily.
2 (of the face etc.) readily changing its expression.
3 (of a shop, library, etc.) accommodated in a vehicle so as to serve various places.
4 (of a person) able to change his or her social status.

--n.

a decorative structure that may be hung so as to turn freely.

mobile home a large caravan permanently parked and used as a residence. mobile sculpture a sculpture having moving parts.

mobility n. [ME f. F f. L mobilis f. movere move]