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Mobocracy

//mɒbˈɒkɹəsi// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Rule or control by the mob (or by the mass of ordinary people); a mob as a politically powerful force. countable, uncountable

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

  2. 2
    a political system in which a mob is the source of control; government by the masses wordnet

Etymology

From mob + -o- + -cracy.

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