Lynch Mob (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. a crowd of people without legal authority who are intent on putting someone to death for an alleged offense: The city was once a real frontier town of gunslingers, lynch mobs, and vigilante justice.African Americans were regularly attacked by white lynch mobs if they "stepped out of line."
  2. a group of people who publicly accuse and attack someone in a vicious way in an effort to destroy their reputation: After his controversial ruling, the judge was the victim of a lynch mob on social media.
adjective
  1. relating to or characteristic or reminiscent of a group of people trying to destroy someone’s reputation or kill someone without legal authority: There was a lynch mob mentality coming out in a number of the posts, so the moderator shut down the thread.The basic facts of the incident were lost in the lynch-mob atmosphere that prevailed on campus.
verb (used with object)
  1. (of a group) to publicly accuse and attack someone in a vicious way in an effort to destroy their reputation: Let's try to be fair and not lynch-mob the whole video gaming industry over this one bad outcome.
Lynch Mob (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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