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rabble

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rabble
noun
1 a rabble of noisy, angry youths:
mob, (disorderly) crowd, throng, gang, swarm, host, horde, pack, press, crush, jam, gathering, assemblage, multitude, mass, body, group;
archaic rout.
2 democracy was often taken to mean rule by the rabble:
the common people, the masses, the populace, the public, the multitude, the rank and file, the commonality, the commonalty, the third estate, the plebeians, the proletariat, the peasantry, the crowd, the hoi polloi, the lower classes, the common herd, the riffraff, the canaille, the great unwashed, the dregs of society, the ragtag (and bobtail), the proles, the plebs.
antonyms aristocracy, nobility.
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