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mob

 
 
/mɒb/ verb [T] (present participle mobbing, past tense and past participle mobbed)

Definition

If a group of people mob someone, they get close to them, often to get their photograph or signature: [often passive] She was mobbed by photographers.
(Definition of mob verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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