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mob
noun- a group of friends US, 1939
- We were thinking of getting up a mob to go to the Lal Lal races. — Norman Lindsay, The Cousin from Fiji, p. 106, 1945
- He introduced me to his mob, lying around of the beach, some of whom were unfriendly[.] — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 132, 1961
- But if you belonged to a mob, you were given a certain amount of respect, depending on the strength of the mob you were in. — William Dick, A Bunch of Ratbags, p. 86, 1965
- a group of people sharing some connection AUSTRALIA, 1848
- Captured by your mob? Don’t gimme the tom tits. You Ities couldn’t capture a bloody grasshopper. — Nino Culotta (John O’Grady), They’re A Weird Mob, p. 24, 1957
- Look at that mob in there. Yer’d be dead unlucky ter be taken by a shark, with that mob. — Nino Culotta (John O’Grady), They’re A Weird Mob, p. 65, 1957
- I once heard a Sydney Australian describe the citizens of Melbourne as being “a weird mob”. — Nino Culotta (John O’Grady), They’re A Weird Mob, p. 200, 1957
- Boy, have we got something to rock the mob with today! — Robert S. Close, With Hooves of Brass, p. 81, 1961
- Don’t lump me in with the bloody squatter-mob. — Dymphna Cusack, Picnic Races, p. 34, 1965
- A mob of us were night breaming on the Yamba Wall a few years ago[.] — Bob Staines, Wot a Whopper, p. 9, 1982
- a gang of criminals UK, 1791
- a military unit UK, 1894
- a group of surfers AUSTRALIA
- — John Severson, Modern Surfing Around the World, p. 172, 1964
- a group of Aboriginal Australians; in Aboriginal English, a tribe, language group or Aboriginal community AUSTRALIA, 1828
- Mum’s always at me about this Noongar mob, though some of them seem to be related to us in a vague way. — Colin Johnson, Wild Cat Falling, p. 10, 1965
- “Where’s Dumby?” I asked Clemboy. “Coming with his mob.” — Phillip Gwynne, Deadly Unna?, p. 96, 1998
- in circus and carnival usage, the men employed by the show as a group US
- — Don Wilmeth, The Language of American Popular Entertainment, p. 175, 1981
- a group of animals; a flock or herd AUSTRALIA, 1828
- Already she had gleaned that he was a squatter, and had come to this little town to truck a mob of sheep for the city markets. — Barbara Baynton, Her Bush Sweetheart, p. 106, 1921
- MOB–Group of larrikins; flock of sheep. — Gilbert H. Lawson, A Dictionary of Australian Words and Terms, 1924
- — Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, p. 11, 1947
- On the other side of the scrub Grant could see a mob of about twenty kangaroos. — Kenneth Cook, Wake in Fright, p. 75, 1961
- [He] took delivery of 1,300 mixed store cattle and headed back to Quilpie again. They were a pretty bad mob, rushing almost every night. — Herb Wharton, Cattle Camp, p. 8, 1994
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