mobocracy

From mob +‎ -o- +‎ -cracy.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɒbˈɒkɹəsi/

mobocracy (countable and uncountable, plural mobocracies)

1. Rule or control by the mob (or by the mass of ordinary people); a mob as a politically powerful force.
   • 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2010, p. 270:

     That this ultrareactionary mobocracy was composed mainly of people with brown skins ought to have made no difference.

• ochlocracy