mobocracy

English

Etymology

mob + -o- +‎ -cracy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /mɒbˈɒkɹəsi/

Noun

mobocracy (plural mobocracies)

1. 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 2010, p. 270:

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

Synonyms

• ochlocracy