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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a political system in which a mob is the source of control; government by the masses;
[syn: mobocracy, ochlocracy]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Mobocracy \Mob*oc"ra*cy\, n. [Mob rabble + -cracy, as in democracy.] A condition in which the lower classes of a nation control public affairs without respect to law, precedents, or vested rights. [1913 Webster] It is good name that Dr. Stevens has given to our present situation (for one can not call it a government), a mobocracy. --Walpole. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

mobocracy n 1: a political system in which a mob is the source of control; government by the masses [syn: mobocracy, ochlocracy]