Mob vs. Crowd
Mob and Crowd Definitions
Mob
A large and often disorderly crowd. ]
Crowd
A large number of persons gathered together; a throng.
Mob
A large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action.
Crowd
The common people; the populace.
Mob
(archaic) The lower classes of a community; the rabble.
Crowd
A group of people united by a common characteristic, as age, interest, or vocation
The over-30 crowd.
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Mob
(collective noun) A group of animals such as horses or cattle.
Crowd
A group of people attending a public function; an audience
The play drew a small but appreciative crowd.
Mob
(collective noun) A group of kangaroos.
Crowd
A large number of things positioned or considered together.
Mob
(collective noun) A flock of emus.
Crowd
An ancient Celtic stringed instrument that was bowed or plucked. Also called crwth.
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Mob
A mafia: a group that engages in organized crime.
Crowd
Chiefly British A fiddle.
Mob
(video games) A non-player character, especially one that exists to be fought or killed to further the progression of the story or game.
Crowd
To gather together in a limited space
The children crowded around the TV.
Mob
(Australian Aboriginal) A group of Aboriginal people associated with an extended family group, clan group or wider community group, from a particular place or country.
Crowd
To move forward by pressing or shoving
A bevy of reporters crowded toward the candidate.
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Mob
(obsolete) A promiscuous woman; a harlot or wench; a prostitute.
Crowd
To force by pressing or shoving
Police crowded the spectators back to the viewing stand.
Mob
A mob cap.
Crowd
To force away by taking up space; displace
Urban sprawl crowded the farmers out of the valley.
Mob
Abbr of mobile phone
Crowd
To draw or stand very near or too near to
The batter crowded the plate. Please don't crowd me.
Mob
(transitive) To crowd around (someone), sometimes with hostility.
The fans mobbed a well-dressed couple who resembled their idols.
Crowd
To press, cram, or force tightly together
Crowded the clothes into the closet.
Mob
(transitive) To crowd into or around a place.
The shoppers mobbed the store on the first day of the sale.
Crowd
To fill or occupy to overflowing
Books crowded the shelves.
Mob
(transitive) To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl.
Crowd
(Informal) To put pressure on; assail
Dark thoughts were crowding him.
Mob
A mobcap.
Crowd
(intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.
The man crowded into the packed room.
Mob
The lower classes of a community; the populace, or the lowest part of it.
A cluster of mob were making themselves merry with their betters.
Crowd
(intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers
They crowded through the archway and into the park.
Mob
A throng; a rabble; esp., an unlawful or riotous assembly; a disorderly crowd.
The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease.
Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.
Confused by brainless mobs.
Crowd
(transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen.
Mob
To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl.
Crowd
(transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together
Mob
To crowd about, as a mob, and attack or annoy; as, to mob a house or a person.
Crowd
To push, to press, to shove.
They tried to crowd her off the sidewalk.
Mob
A disorderly crowd of people
Crowd
(nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
Mob
A loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
Crowd
To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
Mob
An association of criminals;
Police tried to break up the gang
A pack of thieves
Crowd
(transitive) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
Mob
Press tightly together or cram;
The crowd packed the auditorium
Crowd
To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
Crowd
A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
After the movie let out, a crowd of people pushed through the exit doors.
Crowd
Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
There was a crowd of toys pushed beneath the couch where the children were playing.
Crowd
(with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
Crowd
A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
That obscure author's fans were a nerdy crowd which hardly ever interacted before the Internet age.
We're concerned that our daughter has fallen in with a bad crowd.
Crowd
(obsolete) crwth
Crowd
A fiddle.
Crowd
To push, to press, to shove.
Crowd
To press or drive together; to mass together.
Crowd
To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.
The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign.
Crowd
To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
Crowd
To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.
The whole company crowded about the fire.
Images came crowding on his mind faster than he could put them into words.
Crowd
To urge or press forward; to force one's self; as, a man crowds into a room.
Crowd
To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
Crowd
A number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other.
A crowd of islands.
Crowd
A number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng.
The crowd of Vanity Fair.
Crowds that stream from yawning doors.
Crowd
The lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar; the rabble; the mob.
To fool the crowd with glorious lies.
He went not with the crowd to see a shrine.
Crowd
An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow.
A lackey that . . . can warble upon a crowd a little.
Crowd
A large number of things or people considered together;
A crowd of insects assembled around the flowers
Crowd
An informal body of friends;
He still hangs out with the same crowd
Crowd
Cause to herd, drive, or crowd together;
We herded the children into a spare classroom
Crowd
Fill or occupy to the point of overflowing;
The students crowded the auditorium
Crowd
To gather together in large numbers;
Men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah
Crowd
Approach a certain age or speed;
She is pushing fifty
