(n.) The lower classes of a community; the populace, or the lowest part of it.
(n.) A throng; a rabble; esp., an unlawful or riotous assembly; a disorderly crowd.
(v. t.) To crowd about, as a mob, and attack or annoy; as, to mob a house or a person.
Example Sentences:
(1) Levinson's film, to be titled Black Mass, will be based on the New York Times bestseller Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob , by Boston Globe reporters Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill.
(2) A s I watched Camila Batmanghelidjh being mobbed by the small crowd demonstrating about the closure of Kids Company outside Downing Street last week, it struck me that she was more like a character out of children’s book than a real person.
(3) Ellen Page is to make her directorial debut with Miss Stevens, starring Anna Faris as a teacher chaperoning a mob of high school students to a state drama competition.
(4) The Mob+ vector pME285 (10.6 kb) carries the aph gene and the Tn501-derived merRTCA genes coding for mercuric ion resistance, another good selective marker in Pseudomonas.
(5) The Ukrainian president, Oleksandr Turchynov, had given pro-Russian locals in eastern Ukraine until Monday morning to give up their arms and the buildings they had seized, but instead a pro-Russian mob took over yet another government building in Horlivka that day.
(6) Trump, embracing the spirit of the “lock her up” mob chants at his rallies, threatened: “If I win I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation – there has never been so many lies and so much deception,” he threatened.
(7) Numbness sets in.” Philip Hope-Wallace on Look Back in Anger “I must be the only playwright this century to have been pursued up a London street by an angry mob … There was an inescapable tension in the house.
(8) High among the range of issues was the media dominance of the Globo group (whose journalists were chased away from demonstrations by an irate mob), inefficient use of public funds, forced relocations linked to Olympic real estate developments, the treatment of indigenous groups, dire inequality and excessive use of force by police in favela communities.
(9) A conjugation mixture consisted of yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, E. coli harboring pAY101, and E. coli carrying a helper plasmid with mob and tra.
(10) The justice minister Dominic Raab said the Labour leader had promised a “kinder politics” but was now “whipping up a mob mentality”.
(11) We suggest that the contralateral projection nuclei to the MOB of the hedgehog, unusual in other mammals, and the large number of cells with axonal collaterals projecting to both hemispheres, may be a strategy in these animals to bilaterally integrate brain functions at the expense of its reduced corpus callosum.
(12) Tn5-Mob was introduced into the E. coli R1 host replicon via conjugation on membrane filters.
(13) For NP rats, a single dominant frequency component (induced wave) was present in the MOB EEG at 4-6 days of age.
(14) There is no better symbol of London’s macho financialisation than the early 21st-century surge in skyscraper construction, the lanky delinquent mob of new towers that cluster around the City, and their gangmaster, the Shard.
(15) Tn5-Mob mobilization may be useful in the study of metal resistance in bacteria, especially in strains not studied for resistance mechanisms.
(16) Republicans have for months been claiming the White House was engaged in a cover-up, downplaying the role of an al-Qaida inspired group in the attack and suggesting instead the attack was mainly the result of a demonstration by a mob against an American-produced anti-Islam film.
(17) The pars externa (PE) system of the anterior olfactory nucleus (AON) in a primate, Callithrix jacchus, was defined by its architecture and by its connection patterns with the main olfactory bulb (MOB) as revealed by tracing techniques.
(18) Much of the focus has been on a memo of talking points drawn up by the State Department and the CIA for use by Rice in television interviews, in which she blamed a mob rather than terrorists.
(19) Kagame regards Rwanda as the victim of a diplomatic lynch mob and accuses the British government of laying the groundwork by sending the BBC and Channel 4 News to file reports critical of Rwanda.
(20) As in mammalian MOB, the majority of TH-LI neurons were clustered in the periglomerular region and appeared to send their dendritic branches into glomeruli, which as a whole make an intense TH-LI band in the glomerular layer (GML).
Yob
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Tory toffs repelling undesirable immigrants, providing better schools, using welfare reform as a pathway to work, clearing vandals, yobs and drunks from the streets and standing up to our masters in Brussels would be very popular, and the word would soon be forgotten.
(2) Hailed by Duncan Smith and rightwing London as the incentive that would propel the unemployed into work, universal credit has become Whitehall's equivalent of a layabout yob: nothing can make it work.
(3) Reproductive history, as reported from a validated postal questionnaire, was obtained from 204 women with scleroderma [mean year of birth (yob) 1942] and compared to that reported by 233 women with primary Raynaud's phenomenon (mean yob 1948) and 189 healthy women from a population register (mean yob 1950).
(4) I also think Anzacs were racist yobs and Anzac Day is a death cult.
(5) The distinctive check, which dates back to the 1920s, had also become uniform of choice for yobs and football hooligans.
(6) What happened to such worn-out old tropes as feral youth, yob culture, and the prime minister's own golden oldie, broken Britain?
(7) It comes to something when a documentary series featuring yobs, truants, swearing at teachers, swearing by teachers, cyber-bullying and teenage pregnancy makes you believe in the education system again.
(8) I hope the FIA are considering the implications of this fully and that events in Bahrain are not seen as they are often sold, as a bunch of yobs throwing Molotov cocktails, because that's a gross simplification.
(9) Yob, who guided delegate strategy for Rand Paul’s failed presidential campaign this year and is also the author of Campaign Chaos , a book on a potential contested convention, told the Guardian that one of the key tells for a successful delegate effort was “how effective campaigns are at keeping Sinos from being elected”.
(10) Other nations think we are yobs who go over there to drink and fight, but that's only the few who spoil it for the rest.
(11) Ed Miliband , the Labour leader, accused the prime minister of "total double standards", during prime minister's questions, saying he would be the first to back police for locking up a "yob" who swore at officers, but is refusing to sack his chief whip for the same conduct.
(12) Pointing to Mitchell, who sat near Cameron on the government front bench, Miliband said that if a "yob in a city centre" had abused and ranted at an officer in the way Mitchell had done, "the chances are they would be arrested and placed in the back of a police van — and rightly so.
(13) But while it's a night in the cell for the yob, it's a night at the Carlton Club for the chief whip.
(14) But the suspicion lurks that, just as McEnroe seems to have been contractually obliged to have an outburst or two on the veterans’ tour, so the youthful Kyrgios could easily be groomed for a perceived yob-shaped hole in the branding market.
(15) It's a very modern solution to a very old problem, for in towns and cities up and down the land, yobs have long claimed the right to cause drunken mayhem in shops and restaurants run by visible minorities.
(16) When you look back in history, highly contested conventions tended to be a disadvantage to the party that had them,” Yob said – although he noted there were exceptions, the most recent being Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s White House victory after a multi-ballot convention in 1932.
(17) Campaigns have to take care to not just make the ballot in every state but to fill their slates of delegates with names and ensure that those delegates pledged to them are actual supporters and not what veteran Republican strategist John Yob calls “supporters in name only”, or Sinos.
(18) As Yob noted, delegations such as those from Guam, American Samoa and the Virgin Islands (where he is standing to be a delegate) will play a crucial role as a result.
(19) She’d claimed that I was drunk and disorderly and throwing food around like some yob,” Coe recalled.
(20) Behind the far-left yobs, who disgrace every good cause in Britain, the protesters who did not riot in Parliament Square on Thursday looked almost pitiable.