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mobocracy

noun
/mɒbˈɒkɹəsi/UK

Etymology

From mob + -o- + -cracy.

  1. derived from mobile
  2. inherited from mob
  3. formed as mobocracy — “mob + -o- + -cracy”

Definitions

  1. Rule or control by the mob (or by the mass of ordinary people)

    Rule or control by the mob (or by the mass of ordinary people); a mob as a politically powerful force.

    • That this ultrareactionary mobocracy was composed mainly of people with brown skins ought to have made no difference.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA