Mob

Mob, MOB, or mobbing may refer to:

Behavioral phenomena

• 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 behaviour
• 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

• Irish Mob
• American Mafia or Italian Mob
• Sicilian Mafia
• Organized crime
• A criminal gang
• A mafia
• Flash mob robbery
• Member of Bloods, a member of the Bloods street gang
• Mobbing (Scots law)
• A group of vigilantes
• Lynch mob
• Other criminal organizations sometimes referred to as a "mob" include but are not limited:
  • Jewish mob
  • Polish mob
  • Japanese mob
  • Russian mob
  • Greek Mob
  • Black Mafia or Muslim Mob
  • State Line Mob
  • Armenian Mob

Transportation

• 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 railway
• Motos Operacionais de Bombeiros, motorcycles used as ambulances in Brazil

Other uses

• 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"
• Mob, collective noun for a group of kangaroos
• Mobile offshore base, a concept for supporting military operations where conventional land bases are not available
• Mob (video gaming), a monster or non-player character in a computer game, short for "mobile"
• Movable object block, used in computer graphics

See also

• The Mob (disambiguation)