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mobs

/ mɒbz /

plural noun

  1. (usually foll by of) great numbers or quantities; lots

    mobs of people

“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


adverb

  1. a great deal

    mobs better

“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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After that match, Dutch authorities said mobs unleashed a wave of violence, chasing Israelis through the streets on motorbikes and beating them.

Congress created the Insurrection Act as a fail-safe in response to armed mobs attacking their neighbors and organized militias seeking to overthrow elected officials.

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This has left Jews too frightened to walk in central London when these mobs are allowed to rule the streets with the police doing virtually nothing.”

It doesn’t matter what the politicians or the mobs say.

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The city, he said, had been “overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out maniacs and homeless people.”

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