Mobocracy

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /mÉ’bˈɒkɹəsi/

Origin

mob + -o- + -cracy.

Full definition of mobocracy

Noun

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