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mob(2) (iou) and sparsomycin (medicine)


mob(2) (iou)



mob noun1. L17.
[Abbreviation of Mobile noun2.]
A disorderly or riotous crowd; a rabble. L17.
B. Mason A lawless mob..looting and defying the police. J. Nagenda I've just escaped death at the hands of a mob.
The ordinary people, the populace, the masses. L17.
Ordinary or disorderly people forming a crowd. L17-L18.
An assemblage of people; a multitude, a crowd, a group. L17.
transf.: E. Young 'Twill not make one amid a mob of thoughts.
b. A battalion, a regiment; a military unit. Military slang. E20.
J. Higgins Her husband's a major with your old mob.
A flock or herd of animals (orig. representing some sort of threat or problem). Austral. E19.
B. Wannan He met a drover leisurely following a mob of sheep.
a. A gang of thieves or pickpockets working together; a member of such a gang. slang. M19.
swell mob: see SWELL adjective 2.
b. More fully the mob. An organized association of violent criminals; spec. (Mob), a society similar to the Mafia, controlling organized crime in the US and elsewhere. slang. E20.
Guardian The Mob from its Chicago headquarters runs the subcontinent. M. Atwood It was the mob who put Ellis up to making the bust.
Comb.: mob-handed adjective & adverb (colloq.) in considerable numbers; mob law law imposed and enforced by a mob; mobsman a member of a mob; a mobster; mob rule rule imposed and enforced by a mob.
mobbism noun mobbish behaviour L18.

sparsomycin (medicine)


sparsomycin
<protein> Antibiotic that inhibits peptidyltransferase in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes.