Moob vs Mob - What's the difference?
moob | mob |
(slang, usually in plural) A plump or untoned breast on a man.
* 2001 September 3, miha ³, "Re: I know I shouldn't be doing this but...", in alt.games.video.nintendo.gamecube, Usenet, [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.games.video.nintendo.gamecube/msg/68f3f6fef2948c09]
* 2007 January 6, The Guardian ,
* 2009 , Will Self, Ralph Steadman, Psycho too , page 242:
An unruly group of people.
*(James Madison), Jr. (1751-1836)
*:Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob .
A commonly used collective noun for animals such as horses or cattle.
The Mafia, or a similar group that engages in organized crime (preceded by the ).
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*:The Bat—they called him the Bat.. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob , he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
*1986 , (Paul Chadwick), Concrete: Under the Desert Stars , Dark Horse Books
*:What if it is a mob killing? They can’t hurt me, but …
(lb) A non-player character that exists to be fought or killed to further the progression of the story or game.
*2002 , "Wolfie", Re: Whoa - massive changes due in next patch'' (on newsgroup ''alt.games.everquest )
*:You can't win with small, balanced groups. You have to zerg the mob with a high number of players.
(lb) The lower classes of a community; the rabble.
*(Joseph Addison) (1672–1719)
*:A cluster of mob were making themselves merry with their betters.
(lb) A cohesive group of people.
*2011 March 10, Allan Clarke,
*:There’s nothing like local knowledge and after thousands of years living here the Noongar mob understand this land better than anyone, so it makes sense for them to tap into the lucrative tourism industry.
To crowd around (someone), often with hostility.
To crowd into or around a place.
(video games) The act of a player aggroing enemies so they follow them and gather, forming a mob of foes. (rfex)
(obsolete) A promiscuous woman; a harlot or wench; a prostitute.
A mob cap.
To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl.
As nouns the difference between moob and mob
is that moob is a plump or untoned breast on a man while mob is an unruly group of people.As a verb mob is
to crowd around (someone), often with hostility.As an abbreviation mob is
mobile phone.As an initialism MOB is
Man Over Board, used e.g. on the emergency button of a satellite navigator. By pushing the button the operator stores the coordinates of a man overboard incident for easy access.moob
English
Noun
(en noun)- Yeah, put a shirt on gene, we don't want to see your fatty moobs .
- Often – I refer you in particular to Rod Stewart and Tony Blair – these moobs are strangely taut and unsaggy, and have that bee-stung, 12-year-old girl look.
- Ranged along the sides of the broad chamber were curtained booths containing day beds, and from time to time an overweight East End cabbie would emerge from one of these, his moobs glistening with sweat, [...]
External links
* (gynecomastia)References
* "Moobs" in Alison James, The 10 Women You'll Be Before You're 35 , Polka Dot Press (2005), ISBN 1593372779, page 83: "Man boobs. Stay away from guys in the bar who are younger than 45 but have visible moobs." * "Moobs" in C Sanchez, "The Favour House", "Dom had the biggest moobs I had ever seen"Anagrams
* *mob
English
Etymology 1
(etyl), short for mobile, from (etyl) . The video-gaming sense originates from English mobile, used by (Richard Bartle) for objects capable of movement in an early MUD.Noun
(en noun)W.A. through Noongar eyes
Derived terms
* flash mob * lynch mob * meal mob * mob rule * mob-handed * mobber * mobbish * mobbist * mobbism * moblike * mobmobile * mobocracy * mobster * vote mobSynonyms
* (mafia) mafia, MafiaVerb
(mobb)- The fans mobbed a well-dressed couple who resembled their idols.
- The shoppers mobbed the store on the first day of the sale.
Etymology 2
Alteration of (mab).Noun
(en noun)- (Goldsmith)