'Swell mob' definitions:

Definition of 'Swell mob'

From: GCIDE
  • Swell \Swell\, a. Having the characteristics of a person of rank and importance; showy; dandified; distinguished; as, a swell person; a swell neighborhood. [Slang] [1913 Webster]
  • Swell mob. See under Mob. [Slang] [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Swell mob'

From: GCIDE
  • Mob \Mob\, n. [L. mobile vulgus, the movable common people. See Mobile, n.]
  • 1. The lower classes of a community; the populace, or the lowest part of it. [1913 Webster]
  • A cluster of mob were making themselves merry with their betters. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Hence: A throng; a rabble; esp., an unlawful or riotous assembly; a disorderly crowd. [1913 Webster]
  • The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
  • Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. --Madison. [1913 Webster]
  • Confused by brainless mobs. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A criminal organization or organized criminal gangs, collectively; the Mafia; the syndicate; as, he was a lawyer for the mob. [PJC]
  • Mob law, law administered by the mob; lynch law.
  • Swell mob, well dressed thieves and swindlers, regarded collectively. [Slang] --Dickens. [1913 Webster]