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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Mob, 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.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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]
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