rabble-rouse

English

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.
    • 2017 April 6, Lord Lester of Herne Hill, “Merchant Shipping (Homosexual Conduct) Bill”, in House of Lords Hansard‎, volume 782, archived from the original on 2022-01-18, column 1178:
      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.
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