Mobile

A city, the county seat of Mobile County, in southwestern Alabama.

Proper noun

  1. A city, the county seat of Mobile County, in southwestern Alabama.
    • Oh, Mama / Is this really the end? / To be stuck here inside of Mobile / With the Memphis blues again - 1966, Bob Dylan, “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again”, in Blonde on Blonde:

Origin

From the name of (Mobile Bay, from the name of) the Mobile tribe, perhaps from the name of a Native town somewhere in what is now central Alabama, various spelled Mabila or Maubila.

Derived

Mobile County Mobile terrapin