From mob + town, used in print as early as 1838 by The Baltimore Sun.
Formed from mob + town
Latin mobile ‘fickle (crowd)’
Middle English mob
English mob
Proto-Celtic *dūnom ‘stronghold, rampart’
Proto-Germanic *tūną ‘fence, enclosure’
Proto-West Germanic *tūn ‘fence’
Old English tūn ‘an enclosed piece of ground’
Middle English toun ‘a town or city’
English town
Today it means
name Derogatory name for Baltimore: a large city in Maryland, United States.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Mobtown
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