swell mob
【】 著髦扒, 骗



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.

A cluster of mob were making themselves merry with
their betters. --Addison.

2. Hence: A throng; a rabble; esp., an unlawful or riotous
assembly; a disorderly crowd.

The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease. --Pope.

Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every
Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.
--Madison.

Confused by brainless mobs. --Tennyson.

{Mob law}, law administered by the mob; lynch law.

{Swell mob}, well dressed thieves and swindlers, regarded
collectively. [Slang] --Dickens.


Swell \Swell\, a.
Having the characteristics of a person of rank and
importance; showy; dandified; distinguished; as, a swell
person; a swell neighborhood. [Slang]

{Swell mob}. See under {Mob}. [Slang]