gopher mob English

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gopher mob noun

— (slang) A gang of criminals who tunnel into vaults in order to steal.

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Trying to help resolve the situation peacefully, I was persuaded to negotiate at the Central Jakarta Police Station, but found to my horror that the mob leaders controlled the station.

The National and Jakarta police chiefs were called and, under massive public pressure, the leaders of the mob were criminally charged.

UN cars were surrounded by 200 Iraqi soldiers and a mob, ordered out to the scene by Iraqi officials.

The clean emerald field and freedom of the game must be opposed by the howling mob in the darkness of the stands, burning red torches and jerking between ecstatic joy and hellish misery.

President Estrada of the Philippines, who never mastered his office, was removed in a bloodless coup aided by mob rule.

One journalist, Hector Ramirez, died of a heart attack while fleeing from the mob; others narrowly escaped lynching.

It is also likely that some radical hot heads wanted to overthrow the government by mob action.

A mob of extreme leftists succeeded in drowning out the German hymn sung by people celebrating the Wall's approaching collapse.

After being hunted down in a dirty drainpipe, he was displayed like a bloody trophy before being battered and shot by a lynch mob.

Weeping, she told me of her friend, a woman caught by a mob, her stomach ripped open and stuffed with burning rags.

We must fight Islamic extremism, but not by tapping into the darkest gut feelings of the unthinking mob.

For example, during Ramadan prayers last October, a mob of a 1,000 people razed a mosque of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community.

Democracy always degenerated into mob rule, monarchy into tyranny, and aristocracy into oligarchy.

Similarly, few regimes seemed more stable than that of the Shah of Iran, another long-term ruler, who, having bankrupted his country, was forced to flee the fury of a mob in 1979.

During a lecture at Uppsala University last summer, a mob attacked Vilks, a professor of art history, while crying Allahu akbar.

For Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, that imperative meant placating the angry mob that recently attacked the US embassy rather than merely condemning the violence.

A few months after that, a mob assaulted a synagogue in Paris.

The High Court of India's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, finally decided a 61-year-old suit over possession of a disputed site in the temple city of Ayodhya, where, in 1992, a howling mob of Hindu extremists tore down the Babri Masjid mosque.

And I, like many others, will not try to hide my satisfaction at seeing the smug scoundrels of the FN break down and resume speaking in their historic register, with their authentic voice, which is one of hatred and mob rage.