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English → English (gcide) Definition: Swell mob Mob \Mob\, n. [L. mobile vulgus, the movable common people. See Mobile, n.] 1. The lower classes of a community; the populace, or the lowest part of it. [1913 Webster] A cluster of mob were making themselves merry with their betters. --Addison. [1913 Webster] 2. Hence: A throng; a rabble; esp., an unlawful or riotous assembly; a disorderly crowd. [1913 Webster] The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease. --Pope. [1913 Webster] Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. --Madison. [1913 Webster] Confused by brainless mobs. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] Mob law, law administered by the mob; lynch law. Swell mob, well dressed thieves and swindlers, regarded collectively. [Slang] --Dickens. [1913 Webster] Swell \Swell\, a. Having the characteristics of a person of rank and importance; showy; dandified; distinguished; as, a swell person; a swell neighborhood. [Slang] [1913 Webster] Swell mob. See under Mob. [Slang] [1913 Webster]