Mob
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Mob, MOB, or mobbing may refer to:
Behavioral phenomena[edit]
- Crowd
- Flash mob, a group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place
- Cash mob, a group of people who assemble at a local business to make purchases
- Pillow fight flash mob
- Mobbing, human bullying behavior
- Mobbing (animal behavior)
- Ochlocracy, the rule of government by mob or a mass of people
- Smart mob, a temporary self-structuring social organization, coordinated through telecommunication
Crime and law enforcement[edit]
- American Mafia, also known as the Mob
- Flash mob robbery
- Irish Mob, a US criminal syndicate
- Lynch mob
- A mob, in organized crime
- MOB, Member of Bloods, a member of the Bloods street gang
- Mobbing (Scots law)
- A group of vigilantes
- Other criminal organizations sometimes referred to as a "mob" include:
- Jewish mob
- Polish mob
- Japanese mob
- Russian mob
- Greek Mob (disambiguation)
- Black Mafia or Muslim Mob
- State Line Mob
- Armenian Mob
- Albanian mafia or Albanian Mob
- Serbian mafia or Serbian Mob
- Romanian mafia or Romanian Mob
- Bulgarian mafia or Bulgarian Mob
Other uses[edit]
- Mob, a family group, clan group or wider Aboriginal community group in Australian Aboriginal English
- Mob, collective noun for a group of macropods
- Mob (slamball team), a SlamBall team based in Chicago
- Mob (video games), a term for non-player characters
- Shigeo Kageyama, nicknamed "Mob", protagonist of the manga and anime Mob Psycho 100
- Mob as in a team of 100 contestants playing against a single contestant in a game show Eén tegen 100 (also known as 1 vs. 100)
As an abbreviation[edit]
Transportation[edit]
- Man overboard, a person who has fallen off a boat or ship and is in need of rescue
- Mobile Regional Airport (IATA airport code), located in Mobile, Alabama
- Montreux-Oberland Bernois, Swiss narrow gauge railway (1000mm)
- Motos Operacionais de Bombeiros, motorcycles used as ambulances in Brazil
Others[edit]
- Magyar Olimpiai Bizottság, National Olympic Committee of Hungary
- Main Operating Base, an overseas, permanently manned, well protected military base
- Marching Owl Band, the Rice University "marching band"
- Mobile offshore base, a concept for supporting military operations where conventional land bases are not available
- MobileCoin, a cryptocurrency
- Mob (gaming), a monster or non-player character in a computer game, short for "mobile"
- Movable object block, used in computer graphics
- M.O.B.: The Album, a 2008 album by ByrdGang
- M.O.B. (Project Pat album), 2017
- "M.O.B.", a song by Tupac Shakur from the 2001 album Until the End of Time