lynch mob

Noun

Meaning

a mob that kills a person for some presumed offense without legal authority

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

posse detachment rabble lynch law kangaroo court search party necktie party mob justice vigilante justice armed band extrajudicial proceedings cool host cool ring from lynch law into your own hands
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Antonyms

noble aristocracy high society little bit handful of defined band of
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Hypernyms

mob rout rabble

Related terms

lynching

Examples

There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause. P. J. O'Rourke

The Federal courts... surrendered to racist mob psychology as cravenly as any law officer ever did in the Reconstruction South under pressure from a lynch mob. Suddenly, mass bigotry was more dominant in the so called halls of justice in 1995 than it had been in 1955. Carl Rowan

At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away. Elliott Abrams

Close letter words and terms

lynch lynch him lynch law Lynch syndrome lynchable Lynchburg