n. 25B6; noun
troops dispersed the mob : CROWD, horde, multitude, rabble, mass, throng, group, gang, gathering, assemblage; archaic rout.
the mob were excluded from political life : THE COMMON PEOPLE, the masses, the rank and file, the commonality, the commonalty, the third estate, the plebeians, the proletariat; the hoi polloi, the lower classes, the rabble, the riff-raff, the great unwashed; informal the proles, the plebs.
(Brit. informal) he stood out from the rest of the mob : GROUP, set, crowd, lot, circle, coterie, clan, faction, pack, band, ring; informal gang, bunch.
25B6; verb
the Chancellor was mobbed when he visited Berlin : SURROUND, swarm around, besiege, jostle.
reporters mobbed her hotel : CROWD (INTO), fill, pack, throng, press into, squeeze into.