Clan
Mob
Mob noun - A group involved in secret or criminal activities.
Usage example: the club owner was accused of having connections with a mob of racketeers
Clan is a synonym for mob in group topic. Sometimes you can use "Clan" instead a noun "Mob", if it concerns topics such as large group of people.
Nearby Word: mobster
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- Happened to Raphael in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990), when a mob of Foot clan members take him down and then beat him into a coma.
Source: No Holds Barred Beatdown / Film - Two teenage hoodlums have been running out of control in the local Camorra clan's territory, despite warnings from the mob boss to behave themselves or die.
Source: Contract on the Hitman - Mob Ties: The story of an American English Teacher in the Japan that we see in Shonen anime who finds himself accidentally engaged to the daughter of the leader of a clan of Yakuza.
Source: Embellished Webcomics
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Mob and Clan. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/clan/mob
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