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 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

• 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

• 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

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 narrow gauge railway (1000mm)
• Motos Operacionais de Bombeiros, motorcycles used as ambulances in Brazil

Others

• 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

See also

• The Mob (disambiguation)