Mob

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Mob may refer to:

• A crowd of people (from Latin mobile vulgus "fickle commoners")
• An angry mob; see Ochlocracy
• A criminal gang
• In American English, organized crime; slang for Mafia or American Mafia
• Mobbing, human bullying behaviour
• Animal mobbing behavior
• Mobbing (Scots law)
• Mob (computer gaming), a monster or non-player character in a computer game, short for "mobile"
• The Mobile Party appealed to by an English politician lacking support in Parliament (17th & 18th centuries). "A politician who lacked backing in Parliament referred to his “mobile party”— the people in the streets. (This was the origin of “mob.”)" T.R. Fehrenbach

Acronyms

• Mobile Regional Airport (IATA airport code), located in Mobile, Alabama
• Main Operating Base, an overseas, permanently manned, well protected base, used to support permanently deployed forces, and with robust sea and/or air access
• Mobile offshore base, a concept for supporting military operations where conventional land bases are not available
• Man overboard, a person has fallen off a boat or ship into the water and is in need of rescue
• Magyar Olimpiai Bizottság, National Olympic Committee of Hungary
• Mail-order bride, a woman who publishes her intent to marry someone from another country
• Member of Bloods, a member of the Bloods street gang
• 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
• Montreux-Oberland Bernois, Swiss railway
• Movable object block, used in computer graphics
• Marching Owl Band, the Rice University "marching band"
• Motos Operacionais de Bombeiros, motorcycles used as ambulances in Brazil: see Motorcycle ambulance#Brazil

See also

• The Mob (disambiguation)
• Flash mob, social phenomenon
• Smart mob, a temporary self-structuring social organization, coordinated through telecommunication
• Mobs, a short-lived 1930 pulp magazine

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