Mob

The word mob has its origins in the 17th century when it was formed from the latin mobile vulgus, meaning a vacillating crowd. It now has multiple meanings.

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• A mob is a crowd - see group (sociology), mob rule, and crowd psychology
• The mob is a slang term for the Mafia and other organized crime
• A mob or MOB is a non-player character or monster in a computer role-playing game
• A flash mob is a group of people participating in worldwide e-mail-driven experiments organizing groups to suddenly materialize in public places, interact with others according to a loose script and then dissipate just as suddenly as they appeared. You have to know someone to get invited. There is no website to go to for information, no ads in local papers -- the mob forms from e-mails that are forwarded from person to person.
• A mob is the collective noun for a group of kangaroos
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17th century: As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700 in the Gregorian calendar....

Latin: Latin is an Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. It gained great importance as the formal language of the Roman Empire. All Romance languages are descended from Latin, and many words based on Latin are found in other modern languages such as English. The ...




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