• A crowd
  Crowd
  A crowd is a large and definable group of people, while "the crowd" is referred to as the so-called lower orders of people in general...
  
   (of people, from Latin mobile vulgus "fickle commoners":
• An angry mob; see Ochlocracy
  Ochlocracy
  Ochlocracy or mob rule is government by mob or a mass of people, or the intimidation of legitimate authorities.As a pejorative for majoritarianism, it is akin to the Latin phrase mobile vulgus meaning "the fickle crowd", from which the English term "mob" was originally derived in the...
  
  
• A criminal gang
  Gang
  A gang is a group of people who, through the organization, formation, and establishment of an assemblage, share a common identity. In current usage it typically denotes a criminal organization or else a criminal affiliation. In early usage, the word gang referred to a group of workmen...
  
  
• In American English, organized crime
  Organized crime
  Organized crime or criminal organizations are transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals for the purpose of engaging in illegal activity, most commonly for monetary profit. Some criminal organizations, such as terrorist organizations, are...
  
  ; slang for Mafia
  Mafia
  The Mafia is a criminal syndicate that emerged in the mid-nineteenth century in Sicily, Italy. It is a loose association of criminal groups that share a common organizational structure and code of conduct, and whose common enterprise is protection racketeering...
  
   or American Mafia
  American Mafia
  The American Mafia , is an Italian-American criminal society. Much like the Sicilian Mafia, the American Mafia has no formal name and is a secret criminal society. Its members usually refer to it as Cosa Nostra or by its English translation "our thing"...
  
  
• Mobbing
  Mobbing
  Mobbing in the context of human beings either means bullying of an individual by a group in any context. Identified as emotional abuse in the workplace, such as "ganging up" by co-workers, subordinates or superiors, to force someone out of the workplace through rumor, innuendo, intimidation,...
  
  , human bullying behaviour
• Animal mobbing behavior
• Mobbing (Scots law)
  Mobbing (Scots law)
  Under the law of Scotland, mobbing, also known as mobbing and rioting, is the formation of a mob engaged in disorderly and criminal behaviour. The crime occurs when a group combines to the alarm of the public "for an illegal purpose, or in order to carry out a legal purpose by illegal means, e.g....
  
  
• Mob (computer gaming)
  Mob (computer gaming)
  A mob, mobile or monster is a computer-controlled non-player character in a computer game such as an MMORPG or MUD. Depending on context, all such characters in a game may be considered "mobs", or usage may be limited to hostile NPCs and/or NPCs vulnerable to attack.-Purpose of mobs:Defeating...
  
  , a monster or non-player character in a computer game, short for "mobile"
• The Mobile Party appealed to by an English politician lacking support in Parliament (17th & 18th centuries). "A politician who lacked backing in Parliament referred to his “mobile party”— the people in the streets. (This was the origin of “mob.”)" T.R. Fehrenbach

Acronyms

• Mobile Regional Airport
  Mobile Regional Airport
  Mobile Regional Airport is a joint public and military use airport located 11 nautical miles west of the central business district of Mobile, a city in Mobile County, Alabama, United States. It is also near Pascagoula, Mississippi....
  
   (IATA airport code), located in Mobile, Alabama
• Main Operating Base
  Main Operating Base
  Main Operating Base is a term used by the United States military defined as "an overseas, permanently manned, well protected base, used to support permanently deployed forces, and with robust sea and/or air access." This term was used to differentiate major strategic overseas military facilities...
  
  , an overseas, permanently manned, well protected base, used to support permanently deployed forces, and with robust sea and/or air access
• Mobile offshore base
  Mobile offshore base
  In the defense industry of the United States, a mobile offshore base — or MOB — is a concept for supporting military operations where conventional land bases are not available...
  
  , a concept for supporting military operations where conventional land bases are not available
• Man overboard
  Man overboard
  Man overboard is a situation in which a person has fallen from a boat or ship into the water and is in need of rescue. Whoever sees the person's fall should shout "man overboard" to alert other crew members and attempt to maintain visual contact with the person in the water...
  
  , a person has fallen off a boat or ship into the water and is in need of rescue
• Magyar Olimpiai Bizottság, National Olympic Committee of Hungary
• Mail-order bride
  Mail-order bride
  Mail-order bride is a label applied to a woman who publishes her intent to marry someone from another country. This term is considered offensive by some people. The mail-order bride industry is the economic trade of contracted domestic partnerships, often between citizens of different countries or...
  
  , a woman who publishes her intent to marry someone from another country
• Member of Bloods
  Bloods
  The Bloods are a street gang founded in Los Angeles, California. The gang is widely known for its rivalry with the Crips. They are identified by the red color worn by their members and by particular gang symbols, including distinctive hand signs...
  
  , a member of the Bloods street gang
• Mars or Bust, a slogan used within the American Scientific Community to promote a manned space mission to the planet Mars
• Mission of Burma
  Mission of Burma
  Mission of Burma is an American post-punk band formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1979. The band was formed by Roger Miller , Clint Conley , Peter Prescott and Martin Swope...
  
  , an American post-punk band formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1979
• Montreux-Oberland Bernois
  Montreux-Oberland Bernois
  The Montreux-Oberland Bernois railway , is a railway operating in southwest Switzerland, one of the oldest electric railways in the country; its main line, in length, built to gauge, connects Montreux, Gstaad and Zweisimmen where passengers can transfer to a branch of the standard gauge...
  
  , Swiss railway
• Movable object block, used in computer graphics
• Marching Owl Band
  Marching Owl Band
  The Marching Owl Band is the Rice University "marching band" in the sense that it is the official ensemble that performs during football games, some basketball games, parades, and other public events...
  
  , the Rice University "marching band"
• Motos Operacionais de Bombeiros, motorcycles used as ambulances in Brazil: see Motorcycle ambulance#Brazil

See also

• The Mob (disambiguation)
• Flash mob
  Flash mob
  A flash mob is a group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual and sometimes seemingly pointless act for a brief time, then disperse, often for the purposes of entertainment, satire, artistic expression...
  
  , social phenomenon
• Smart mob
  Smart mob
  A smart mob is a group that, contrary to the usual connotations of a mob, behaves intelligently or efficiently because of its exponentially increasing network links. This network enables people to connect to information and others, allowing a form of social coordination. Parallels are made to,...
  
  , a temporary self-structuring social organization, coordinated through telecommunication
• Mobs, a short-lived 1930 pulp magazine