rabble-rouse

verb

To act as a rabble rouser; to stir up a mob of people.

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Meanings

verbrabble-rouse (third-person singular simple present rabble-rouses, present participle rabble-rousing, simple past and past participle rabble-roused)

present singular third person rabble-rouses · participle present rabble-rousing · participle past rabble-roused · past rabble-roused

  1. To act as a rabble rouser; to stir up a mob of people.

    In her important and timely book, The Enemy Within, the noble Baroness, Lady Warsi, recalled how her party had rabble-roused the party faithful at conferences and meetings against gay people and enacted legislation that stigmatised them from birth.

    2017 April 6, Lord Lester of Herne Hill, “Merchant Shipping (Homosexual Conduct) Bill”, in House of Lords Hansard^(https://web.archive.org/web/20220118102936/https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2017-04-06/debates/DBCDBCA0-DBBE-4C28-9A01-34326423D743/MerchantShipping(HomosexualConduct)Bill#contribution-BF0F52A7-F982-4704-8B68-4F4A4CA1ED16), volume 782, archived from the original on 18 Jan 2022, column 1178
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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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