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LYNCH MOB
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A mob that kills a person for some presumed offense without legal authority
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("lynch mob" is a kind of...):
mob; rabble; rout (a disorderly crowd of people)