Mob
The Mafia: any particular mafia, mentioned uniquely within the discussion's established or implicit context, usually and especially the Sicilian–Italian–Italian-American one (especially in American English) but occasionally others (e.g., the Russian one, the Japanese one).
Proper noun
- The Mafia: any particular mafia, mentioned uniquely within the discussion's established or implicit context, usually and especially the Sicilian–Italian–Italian-American one (especially in American English) but occasionally others (e.g., the Russian one, the Japanese one).
- The campfires provide enough plain old regular visible light to show this sorry affair for what it is: a bunch of demented Boy Scouts, a jamboree without merit badges or hygiene. With the IR supered on top of the...
- The masses, especially the 'great unwashed masses': the general population, or rabble, viewed as one mob of unruly, disorganized people predisposed to violence and malevolence.
- tempted to ascribe Poe's narrators' mentions of the Mob to misanthropy in the author himself
Origin
From the common noun sense, capitalized and used as a proper name.