I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lynch mob
mob cap
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
angry
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An angry mob creates confusion and prevents the smooth running of its hunting sequence.
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My first reaction was to scan the angry opposition mob for shotguns, pistols, slingshots, and M-80s.
heavy
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He would come back and find the heavy mob were selling Tombstone as holiday homes.
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The regulars and the heavy mob from Fleet Street arrived and we just managed to catch the last train to Cambridge.
white
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Subsequently, a white mob formed, and fighting broke out.
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The National Guard had been removed, and a white mob had gathered at the school to enforce vigilante justice.
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Dozens of white mobs prowled the streets.
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When the word spread of another crime against white womanhood, a white mob gathered outside the jail.
■ NOUN
cap
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He needed only a mob cap and frilly apron to complete the image.
lynch
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She had a picture of a Southern lynch mob , a whole group of white men and women.
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The eyes of the lynch mob were uncomprehendingly evil.
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The lynch mob is gathering outside the Last Chance Saloon.
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The crowd was on the point of becoming a lynch mob , but were still linked in a human chain.
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Some lynch mob of cuckolded husbands exacting a medieval revenge?
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At worse they were a lynch mob .
rule
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Unless the growing spirit of the movement could be harnessed coherently, mob rule would replace Unionist minority rule.
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Now Bork proposes that mob rule be substituted for the authority of the nine justices.
violence
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The Monis government had been guilty of foolish panic, the Marne growers of mob violence .
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Tyranny, terror, and mob violence were used to coerce antislavery activists.
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After Frankfurt, the cities worst affected by mob violence are Hamburg, Berlin and Munich.
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We've got the miners rattling sabres again and there's been mob violence outside that new printing works in Sheffield.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A mob of fans caused millions of pounds worth of damage in the area surrounding the stadium.
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A mob of reporters surrounded the quarterback.
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In two recent incidents, police fired at mobs of unruly protesters.
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The mob set fire to cars and buildings.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It was Shawn Ogg, with the rest of the mob behind him.
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My first reaction was to scan the angry opposition mob for shotguns, pistols, slingshots, and M-80s.
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No one in the mob was arrested.
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On the northwest corner of South and Catherine streets, a small mob had formed again.
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This made the local mob angry.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The star was mobbed at the airport by photographers and reporters.
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When we went to Disney World last spring, it was mobbed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A., Aragon, much like a movie star, was mobbed wherever he went.
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And the beach is mobbed with others in the same predicament.
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Chimpanzees have been observed to indulge in mobbing in certain unusual cases.
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During a recent visit he was mobbed by autograph hunters.
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Stores all over Paris were mobbed Friday, with huge crowds massing outside stores even before opening time.
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The band, who have shot to No. 11 with Drive, say they are sick of being mobbed wherever they go.
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The poor bewildered creature was being mobbed by rooks.
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Vancouverites have been mobbing his new public library.