The english language can be very precise.
Definitions of "mob":
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/mob
Quote:
nounf
1. a disorderly or riotous crowd of people.
2. a crowd bent on or engaged in lawless violence.
3. any group or collection of persons or things.
4. the common people; the masses; populace or multitude.
5. a criminal gang, especially one involved in drug trafficking, extortion, etc.
6. the Mob, Mafia (def 1).
7. Sociology. a group of persons stimulating one another to excitement and losing ordinary rational control over their activity.
adjective
9. of, relating to, or characteristic of a lawless, irrational, disorderly, or riotous crowd:
mob rule; mob instincts.
10. directed at or reflecting the lowest intellectual level of the common people:
mob appeal; the mob mentality.
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I'll grant that 5 & 6 don't apply.
But most of the others fit to one extent or another.
And the ones I had in mind are 7 and 10.