English Dictionary

Mob

固有名詞

The Mafia: any particular mafia, mentioned uniquely within the discussion's established or implicit context, usually and especially the Sicilian–Italian–Italian-American one (especially in American English) but occasionally others (e.g., the Russian one, the Japanese one).

日本語の意味

マフィア、特にシシリア系・イタリア系のアメリカン・マフィアを指す名称。 / 文脈によっては、ロシア系や日本系など他の組織犯罪集団を指す場合もある。

After the meeting, the Mob tightened its grip on the waterfront, forcing fishermen to pay a monthly fee for protection.

会合の後、マフィアは海辺の支配を強め、漁師たちに毎月の保護料を支払わせた。

意味（1）

The Mafia: any particular mafia, mentioned uniquely within the discussion's established or implicit context, usually and especially the Sicilian–Italian–Italian-American one (especially in American English) but occasionally others (e.g., the Russian one, the Japanese one).

意味（2）

The masses, especially the 'great unwashed masses': the general population, or (yet more specifically) the rabble thereof, viewed as one mob of unruly, disorganized people predisposed to violence and malevolence.

tempted to ascribe Poe's narrators' mentions of the Mob to misanthropy in the author himself