(~s, ~bing, ~bed)
1.
A ~ is a large, disorganized, and often violent crowd of people.
The inspectors watched a growing ~ of demonstrators gathering.
N-COUNT
2.
People sometimes use the ~ to refer in a disapproving way to the majority of people in a country or place, especially when these people are behaving in a violent or uncontrolled way.
If they continue like this there is a danger of the ~ taking over...
N-SING: the N, N n disapproval
3.
You can refer to the people involved in organized crime as the Mob. (INFORMAL)
...casinos that the Mob had operated...
N-SING: usu the N, N n
4.
If you say that someone is being ~bed by a crowd of people, you mean that the people are trying to talk to them or get near them in an enthusiastic or threatening way.
They found themselves being ~bed in the street for autographs.
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed