Mob

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Mob commonly refers to a crowd of people (from Latin mobile vulgus, ).

Mob or mobbing may also refer to:

In bullying and intimidation

• Mobbing, human bullying behaviour
• Mobbing (animal behavior)

In computing

• Mob (video gaming), a monster or non-player character in a computer game, short for "mobile"
• Smart mob, a temporary self-structuring social organization, coordinated through telecommunication

In criminals

• American Mafia
• A criminal gang
• Mafia
• Organized crime
• A group of vigilantes

In law, law enforcement, and politics

• Mobbing (Scots law)
• An angry mob; see ochlocracy

In other uses

• Money Order Business (M.O.B.), term used by the Post Office Department from the late 19th century through the mid-20th century^[1]
• Cash mob, a group of people who assemble at a local business to make purchases
• Flash mob, social phenomenon
• Flash mob robbery
• Pillow fight flash mob
• Australian A flock or herd of animals (example: a mob of kangaroos)
• "mob", colloquial and short for mobilization

In acronyms

MOB may mean:

• Money Over Bitches, slang created by the rapper Tupac Shakur, widely used in Hip Hop and Rap culture.
• Magyar Olimpiai Bizottság, National Olympic Committee of Hungary
• Mail-order bride, a woman who publishes her intent to marry someone from another country
• Main Operating Base, an overseas, permanently manned, well protected base, used to support permanently deployed forces, and with robust sea and/or air access
• Man overboard, a person has fallen off a boat or ship into the water and is in need of rescue
• Marching Owl Band, the Rice University "marching band"
• Mars or Bust, a slogan used within the American Scientific Community to promote a manned space mission to the planet Mars
• Mission of Burma, an American post-punk band formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1979
• Mobile offshore base, a concept for supporting military operations where conventional land bases are not available
• Mobile Regional Airport (IATA airport code), located in Mobile, Alabama
• Montreux-Oberland Bernois, Swiss railway
• Movable object block, used in computer graphics
• Member of Bloods, a member of the Bloods street gang
• Motos Operacionais de Bombeiros, motorcycles used as ambulances in Brazil: see Motorcycle ambulance#Brazil
• Model of Broher , a usage which for murat onat

See also

• The Mob (disambiguation)

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