Mob vs. Riot — What's the Difference?

A large and often disorderly crowd. ]

A riot () is a form of civil disorder commonly characterized by a group lashing out in a violent public disturbance against authority, property, or people. Riots typically involve destruction of property, public or private.

A large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action.

A wild or turbulent disturbance created by a large number of people.

(archaic) The lower classes of a community; the rabble.

(Law) A violent disturbance of the public peace by three or more persons assembled for a common purpose.

(collective noun) A group of animals such as horses or cattle.

An unrestrained outbreak, as of laughter or passions.

(collective noun) A group of kangaroos.

A profusion

(collective noun) A flock of emus.

Unrestrained merrymaking; revelry.

A mafia: a group that engages in organized crime.

Debauchery.

(video games) A non-player character, especially one that exists to be fought or killed to further the progression of the story or game.

(Slang) An irresistibly funny person or thing

(Australian Aboriginal) A group of Aboriginal people associated with an extended family group, clan group or wider community group, from a particular place or country.

To take part in a riot.

(obsolete) A promiscuous woman; a harlot or wench; a prostitute.

To live wildly or engage in uncontrolled revelry.

A mob cap.

To waste (money or time) in wild or wanton living

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A tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by a large group of people, often involving violence or damage to property.

(transitive) To crowd around (someone), sometimes with hostility.

(figurative) A wide and unconstrained variety.

(transitive) To crowd into or around a place.

A humorous or entertaining event or person.

(transitive) To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl.

Wanton or unrestrained behavior or emotion.

A mobcap.

(obsolete) Excessive and expensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry.

The lower classes of a community; the populace, or the lowest part of it.

(intransitive) To create or take part in a riot; to raise an uproar or sedition.

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

To act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of feasting, luxury, etc.

To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl.

(transitive) To cause to riot; to throw into a tumult.

To crowd about, as a mob, and attack or annoy; as, to mob a house or a person.

(transitive) To annoy.

A disorderly crowd of people

Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult.

A loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities

Excessive and exxpensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry.

An association of criminals;

The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object.

Press tightly together or cram;

To engage in riot; to act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of luxury, feasting, or the like; to revel; to run riot; to go to excess.

To spend or pass in riot.

A public act of violence by an unruly mob

A state of disorder involving group violence

A joke that seems extremely funny

A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

Take part in a riot; disturb the public peace by engaging in a riot;

Engage in boisterous, drunken merry-making;