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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—M

Mob

A contraction of the Latin mobile vulgus (the fickle crowd). The term was first applied to the people by the members of the Green-ribbon Club, in the reign of Charles II. (Northern Examiner, p. 574.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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