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mob-handed

adjective

  1. informal,  in or with a large group of people

    the police turned up mob-handed

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The court heard Dappy sparked a "mob-handed attack" when he spat at two teenage women.

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East 17 were drinking in the bar and when they saw us arrive mob-handed, they fled to their rooms.

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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.

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In April 2014 Dortmund beat Bayern – who were already champions – 3-0 at the Allianz Arena playing almost entirely on the break, taking 29% possession and scoring goals from lightning, mob-handed breaks on the flanks.

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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.

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