mobocracy
nounUK /mɒbˈɒkɹəsi/
Etymology From mob + -o- + -cracy.
1
Rule or control by the mob (or by the mass of ordinary people); a mob as a politically powerful force.
- That this ultrareactionary mobocracy was composed mainly of people with brown skins ought to have made no difference.2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2010, page 270:
- Synonyms
- ochlocracy