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mob

2 verb
     
mob2 past tense and past participle mobbed, present participle mobbing [transitive]
1 if people mob a famous person, they rush to get close to them and form a crowd around them:
Fans ran onto the pitch and mobbed the batsman.
2 if a group of birds or animals mob another bird or animal, they all attack it
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