mobocracy
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Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
mobocracy (countable and uncountable, plural mobocracies)
- Rule or control by the mob (or by the mass of ordinary people); a mob as a politically powerful force.
- 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2010, page 270:
- That this ultrareactionary mobocracy was composed mainly of people with brown skins ought to have made no difference.
Synonyms
Translations
rule of the mob
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