"flash rob" meaning in English

See flash rob in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: flash robs [plural]
Etymology: Blend of flash mob + rob Etymology templates: {{blend|en|flash mob|rob}} Blend of flash mob + rob Head templates: {{en-noun}} flash rob (plural flash robs)
  1. (criminology) A form of organized theft in which a group of people enter a shop en masse and steal merchandise, while the employees are overwhelmed by sheer numbers. Wikipedia link: flash rob Categories (topical): Crime, Criminology Synonyms: steaming Translations (a form of theft): arrastão [Brazil, masculine] (Portuguese)

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "flash mob",
        "3": "rob"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of flash mob + rob",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of flash mob + rob",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "flash robs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "flash rob (plural flash robs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English blends",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Crime",
          "orig": "en:Crime",
          "parents": [
            "Criminal law",
            "Society",
            "Law",
            "All topics",
            "Justice",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Criminology",
          "orig": "en:Criminology",
          "parents": [
            "Crime",
            "Sociology",
            "Criminal law",
            "Society",
            "Social sciences",
            "Law",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Justice",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A form of organized theft in which a group of people enter a shop en masse and steal merchandise, while the employees are overwhelmed by sheer numbers."
      ],
      "id": "en-flash_rob-en-noun-TeerdWGs",
      "links": [
        [
          "criminology",
          "criminology"
        ],
        [
          "organized",
          "organized"
        ],
        [
          "theft",
          "theft"
        ],
        [
          "group",
          "group"
        ],
        [
          "shop",
          "shop"
        ],
        [
          "en masse",
          "en masse"
        ],
        [
          "steal",
          "steal"
        ],
        [
          "employee",
          "employee"
        ],
        [
          "overwhelmed",
          "overwhelmed"
        ],
        [
          "sheer",
          "sheer"
        ],
        [
          "number",
          "number"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(criminology) A form of organized theft in which a group of people enter a shop en masse and steal merchandise, while the employees are overwhelmed by sheer numbers."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "steaming"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "criminology",
        "human-sciences",
        "law",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "a form of theft",
          "tags": [
            "Brazil",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "arrastão"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "flash rob"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "flash rob"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "flash mob",
        "3": "rob"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of flash mob + rob",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of flash mob + rob",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "flash robs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "flash rob (plural flash robs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English blends",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "en:Crime",
        "en:Criminology"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A form of organized theft in which a group of people enter a shop en masse and steal merchandise, while the employees are overwhelmed by sheer numbers."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "criminology",
          "criminology"
        ],
        [
          "organized",
          "organized"
        ],
        [
          "theft",
          "theft"
        ],
        [
          "group",
          "group"
        ],
        [
          "shop",
          "shop"
        ],
        [
          "en masse",
          "en masse"
        ],
        [
          "steal",
          "steal"
        ],
        [
          "employee",
          "employee"
        ],
        [
          "overwhelmed",
          "overwhelmed"
        ],
        [
          "sheer",
          "sheer"
        ],
        [
          "number",
          "number"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(criminology) A form of organized theft in which a group of people enter a shop en masse and steal merchandise, while the employees are overwhelmed by sheer numbers."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "steaming"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "criminology",
        "human-sciences",
        "law",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "flash rob"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a form of theft",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "arrastão"
    }
  ],
  "word": "flash rob"
}

Download raw JSONL data for flash rob meaning in English (1.6kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.