MOB Copy link • MOB 1. s. An assemblage of people, turba; homines promiscui: globus (a dense body often with contemptuous sense; e.g., ex illo globo nobilitatis, Sall., Jug., 85, 10). (The words are found in this connection and order.) turba et colluvio (Cic., Sen., 23, 85). The common people, turba; colluvies; colluvio hominum; faex populi: multitudo de plebe: multitudo obscura et humilis (with reference to birth). 2. v. *minaciter circumfundi alicui: globus circumstantium increpat aliquem, etc. (= anybody is mobbed, Cf: Liv., 8, 32, 13): perhaps, increpitare vocibus (of the abuse only, Caes., B.G., 2, 30). To mob anybody, circumfundi alicui (PROP., to crowd round him, Liv.): circumfundi alicui et (ad aures quoque ejus) ferocia verba volvere (☞ Liv., 22, 14, extr.). Vid: also, SCOLD.