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mob

A2 noun

mob /mɑb/ nghĩa là mũ trùm đầu (kiểu cổ)

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  1. mũ trùm đầu (kiểu cổ)

    A large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action.

    Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

    See also: Mob (the masses)

  2. A group of animals of any kind.

    collective

    Well behind the fire were the pack-saddles and a dark mob of feeding horses[.]

  3. A group of kangaroos.

    collective

    The leader of a mob of kangaroos is the strongest and usually the largest male in the group.

  4. A group of any marsupial.

    broadly · collective

    There must be a whole mob of wombats living in here!

    Sex difference in size is so marked, that one familiar with the animals, can easily pick out the males in a mob when some distance away.

  5. A group of emus.

    collective

    Without a second's delay another great rushing comes nearer. "By Jove! a mob of emus," says the old hunter.

    In the gated area nearest the barn and the pond, there were goats and sheep, llamas and ponies, and a mob of emus.

    Not even Wellington's horse rode with greater precipitancy upon Napoleon's troops at Waterloo than Dick advanced upon the mob of emus.

  6. A mafia: a group that engages in organized crime.

    What if it is a mob killing? They can’t hurt me, but …

    See also: Mob, Mafia (proper noun senses for specific ones)

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  1. A group of Aboriginal people associated with an extended family group, clan group or wider community group, from a particular place or country.

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