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rabble-rouse

rabble-rouse verb: to act as a rabble rouser; to stir up a mob of people.

Verb

rabble-rouse (third-person singular simple present rabble-rouses, present participle rabble-rousing, simple past and past participle 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/2017-0...

Forms of rabble-rouse

third-person singular presentrabble-rouses
present participlerabble-rousing
past participlerabble-roused
pastrabble-roused

Questions about rabble-rouse

What does rabble-rouse mean?
Rabble-rouse means to act as a rabble rouser; to stir up a mob of people.
What part of speech is rabble-rouse?
Rabble-rouse is a verb.
What is the past tense of rabble-rouse?
The past tense of rabble-rouse is rabble-roused.

Words near rabble-rouse in the dictionary

  1. rabbitwood
  2. rabbity
  3. rabble
  4. rabble rouser
  5. rabble rousers
  6. rabble-rouse
  7. rabble-roused
  8. rabble-rouser
  9. rabble-rousers
  10. rabble-rouses
  11. rabble-rousing

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