mobocracy
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Noun
mobocracy (countable and uncountable, plural mobocracies)
- (nonstandard) 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.
- 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2010, p. 270:
Synonyms
Translations
rule of the mob
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