Lynchmob
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Lynchmob is a noun meaning Alternative form of lynch mob.
Meaning
Alternative form of lynch mob.
Example Sentences
And we are simply told that a crowd, a moment before desirous of worshipping Paul, have been turned in a moment into a howling lynchmob, all by some seductive whisperings of Luke’s ubiquitous Elders of Zion.
The heroines of these plays speak out against intraracial biases, stereotyping, lynchmobs, illiteracy, poverty, promiscuity, self-righteousness, verbally abusive men, rape, and miscegenation. […] Without warning the doctor, she chokes the life out of her child in order to keep him safe from white lynchmobs.
White workers have organized lynchmobs, raped Black women, mutilated Black children, engaged in strikes to protest the employment of Black co-workers, voted for white supremacist candidates in overwhelming numbers (e.g., George Wallace in the Democratic Party’s presidential primaries in 1972), and have created all-white unions.
Word Forms
- lynchmobs
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