Cream
Cream noun - Individuals carefully selected as being the best of a class.
Usage example: the school accepts only the cream of the world's young violinists
Mob
Mob noun - The body of the community as contrasted with the elite.
Usage example: political speeches designed to appeal to the mob
Nearby Word: mobster
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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Parodied in an episode of Dilbert, in which an angry mob becomes confused and wields ice cream scoopers and toilet plungers.
Source: Torches and Pitchforks -
I Was Told There Would Be Cake: a Torches and Pitchforks style angry mob is completely legal on Jean, as long as everyone gets ice cream afterwards.
Source: Webcomic / Freefall -
In Bill Forsyth's Comfort and Joy, a radio personality is shaken from his post-breakup funk when he gets in the middle of a mob-grade territory war between rival ice-cream vendors (based on the Glasgow Ice Cream Wars — see 'Real Life').
Source: Bad Humor Truck
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