lynchmob

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A form of lynch mob — A group of vigilantes intent on lynching someone.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

nounlynchmob (plural lynchmobs)

plural lynchmobs

  1. alternativeAlternative form of lynch mob.

    And we are simply told that a crowd, a moment before desirous of worshipping Paul, have been turned in a moment into a howling lynchmob, all by some seductive whisperings of Luke’s ubiquitous Elders of Zion.

    2017, Robert M[cNair] Price, “Acts 14 and the Equinox of the Gods”, in Atheism and Faitheism, Durham, N.C.: Pitchstone Publishing, →ISBN, part five (Biblical Explorations), page 250
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    White workers have organized lynchmobs, raped Black women, mutilated Black children, engaged in strikes to protest the employment of Black co-workers, voted for white supremacist candidates in overwhelming numbers (e.g., George Wallace in the Democratic Party’s presidential primaries in 1972), and have created all-white unions.

    1983, Manning Marable, “The Crisis of the Black Working Class”, in How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy and Society, Boston, Mass.: South End Press, →ISBN, page 44

    The heroines of these plays speak out against intraracial biases, stereotyping, lynchmobs, illiteracy, poverty, promiscuity, self-righteousness, verbally abusive men, rape, and miscegenation. […] Without warning the doctor, she chokes the life out of her child in order to keep him safe from white lynchmobs.

    1990, Elizabeth Brown-Guillory, “Preface”, in Wines in the Wilderness: Plays by African American Women from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present, New York, N.Y.: Praeger Publishers, →ISBN, page xiv
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