counterriot

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noun

A riot triggered by another riot.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nouncounterriot (plural counterriots)

plural counterriots

  1. A riot triggered by another riot.
    1 more example

    For two days and nights, since rumors first stole across the bridge with whispers of 500 rebel Arsiyah put to death in the yard of the Qomr, the fugitive partners had been trapped by riot and counterriot with 15 whores, male and female, among them Hanukkah’s beloved Sarah; the procuress Celestial Hind, supposedly a bastard half-sister of the kagan; a cat; a weasel; and an ill-tempered macaque called Fortunatus, a name that delighted Amram, being “Zelikman” put into Latin.

    2007 April 15, Michael Chabon, “‘Gentlemen of the Road’”, in New York Times

Origin

Cite this entry
APA

counterriot. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/counterriot

MLA

“counterriot.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/counterriot. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “counterriot,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/counterriot.

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