Rabble: noun - long
series of words with little meaning or value (SA rather like a lot of modern poetry, then.); pack or swarm of
animals; mob or disorderly crowd of people; a type of people imagined as gathered
in a mob; people of the lowest class, the common or disorderly part of a population.
‘As Denise stepped out of the archway, she came face to face
with a rabble and was forced to retreat in order to avoid being crushed by the
onrushing mob.’
‘At the dog fight, the rabble gathered round, cursing and
yelling encouragement to the poor beasts in the pit, forced to fight each other
to earn money for their masters and the idiotic punters.’
Pic: Staithes harbour, North Yorkshire.
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