Synonyms for mob
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1. mob

   The populace are poor and ignorant, but may be law-abiding; a mob is disorderly and lawless, but may be rich and influential. The rabble is despicable, worthless, purposeless; a mob may have effective desperate purpose. A crowd may be drawn by mere curiosity; some strong, pervading excitement is needed to make it a mob. Compare PEOPLE.

   Synonyms:
   canaille, crowd, dregs of the people, lower classes, masses, populace, rabble, the vulgar

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1. mob

   Synonyms:
   disorderly crowd, tumultuous rabble, rude multitude

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1. mob, rabble, routnoun

   a disorderly crowd of people

   Synonyms:
   rabble, ragtag and bobtail, syndicate, pack, crime syndicate, ragtag, rout, gang, riffraff, family, ring

2. syndicate, crime syndicate, mob, familynoun

   a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities

   Synonyms:
   kinsfolk, crime syndicate, kinfolk, folk, family line, pack, gang, pool, family unit, kinsperson, class, home, category, rabble, family, rout, house, consortium, ring, household, fellowship, sept, kin, phratry, menage, syndicate

3. gang, pack, ring, mobverb

   an association of criminals

   "police tried to break up the gang"; "a pack of thieves"

   Synonyms:
   bunch, ringing, annulus, hoop, coterie, battalion, pack, gang, plurality, work party, ingroup, large number, anchor ring, crowd, rabble, halo, multitude, rout, family, clique, inner circle, crime syndicate, closed chain, camp, ring, doughnut, crew, tintinnabulation, band, face pack, syndicate

4. throng, mob, pack, pile, jamverb

   press tightly together or cram

   "The crowd packed the auditorium"

   Synonyms:
   wad, pile, ram, backpack, jampack, pack, obstruct, take, heap, crush, tamp, block, occlude, load down, impede, tamp down, bundle, chock up, throng, stack, carry, obturate, cram, jam, close up, compact

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1. mobnoun

   Synonyms:
   tumultuous rabble, rude multitude, lawless crowd

2. mobnoun

   Synonyms:
   populace, CANAILLE, riff-raff, lower orders, vulgar herd, scum of society, dregs of the people, rag-tag-and-bob-tail

3. mobnoun

   Synonyms:
   mob-cap

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1. mobnoun

   Synonyms:
   rabble, rabblerout, populace, canaille, riffraff

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1. List of paraphrases for "mob":

   mafia, crowd, slc, mobs, underworld, eip, fmt, wfc, moped, ppc, cfp, peat, gang, bom, rabble

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1. Norma Garcia-Lopez:

   They sent a lynch mob to attack me, they want to silence me from advocating for equity, by pressuring me into resigning as co-chair of the Racial Equity Committee.

2. Brandon Bell/Getty Images:

   The mob in the media — they don't want you to see this story.

3. President Barack Obama:

   Hillary Clinton has no vision for America, hillary Clinton only vision for America is that Hillary Clinton wants to be the mob boss of America. Hillary Clinton wants to be the female Godfather, the greatest thing since Al Capone. And Hillary Clinton wants all the benefits that Al Capone got in Chicago ; Al Capone liked to run the city ; Al Capone liked to knock off Al Capone opponents. This is the cult of Hillary Clinton and this is what Hillary Clinton wants. Hillary Clinton wants to basically be the one who runs our life and calls all the shots and snubs out Hillary Clinton opponent. I, for one, am not going to stand for it and I ’m hoping most Americans wo n’t either.

4. Ted Cruz:

   There have been multiple media reports about Donald's business dealings with the mob, with the mafia. Now maybe his tax returns show that those business dealings are a lot more extensive than has been reported.

5. Lorenzo Boyd:

   The most important thing to realize is the difference between is between the protestors and the rioters. The protestors are mostly peaceful, and the rioters who come next are Antifa going into areas with Black Lives Matter[BLM] signs, it is a mob mentality, really.