RABBLE-ROUSE

PRONUNCIATION: (RAB-uhl-rouz)

MEANING: verb intr.: To stir up the masses, especially to incite action or change.

ETYMOLOGY: Back-formation from rabble-rouser, from rabble (mob, pack of animals) + rouse (to excite, awaken), from Middle English rousen (to shake the feathers). Earliest documented use: 1864).
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RABBLE ROSE - populist revolution

RABBLE-ROUTE - how the mob gets to where it's going

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