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mob-handed

British  

adjective

  1. informal in or with a large group of people

    the police turned up mob-handed

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Welcome to another mob-handed, obsessively planned, lovingly curated effort to bring you the Guardian and Observer’s World Cup coverage in every conceivable form, to your every conceivable screen.

From The Guardian • Jun. 14, 2018

The current group were signed under five different managers, to unconnected tactical plans, most recently by a mob-handed transfer committee with its own dimly conceived moneyball-style pretentions.

From The Guardian • Jan. 18, 2016

There is no space for blame here - who do you blame for mob-handed institutional decline?

From The Guardian • Sep. 3, 2010

In more recent times, the likes of Johnson and Cena have arrived not as tentative pioneers, but with a mob-handed back-up crew.

From The Guardian • Sep. 2, 2010

This is something of a mob-handed outside broadcast feat in itself, surely unprecedented in its cross-platform fecundity.

From The Guardian • Jun. 23, 2010