English Explanatory Dictionary

King Mob

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Personification of a lawless mob.
  2. An English radical group based in London during the 1960s and 1970s, who sought to emphasise the cultural anarchy and disorder being ignored in Britain, with the ultimate aim of promoting proletarian revolution.

Word forms

King Mob

Etymology

In the Gordon Riots of June 1780, rioters daubed the slogan "His Majesty King Mob" on the walls of Newgate prison, after gutting the building.

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