Lynch Mob (Noun)
Meaning
A mob that kills a person for some presumed offense without legal authority.
Classification
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
Examples
- The town was on edge as the lynch mob gathered outside the jail, demanding justice for the accused.
- A group of angry residents formed a lynch mob and stormed the house of the alleged thief.
- Historians have documented numerous cases of lynch mobs in the Deep South during the 19th century.
- The governor urged calm, fearing the angry crowd might turn into a lynch mob if they were not restrained.
- A large lynch mob had set out to hang the suspect, who was accused of murder.