antimob
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]antimob (comparative more antimob, superlative most antimob)
- Opposing the actions of a mob.
- 1987, Paul A. Gilje, The Road to Mobocracy, page 100:
- By 1811 and 1812, magistrates like De Witt Clinton used the antimob rhetoric of the late 1790s and moved forcefully to restrain political popular disorder.
- 2002, Robert M. Utley, Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers, page 261:
- Some had been killed for the offense, one on the basis of a child's schoolyard report of her father's antimob comments at the dinner table.