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rabble-rouse


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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).

USAGE:

“[In American Fun, John] Beckman considers several famous moments when Americans came together to rabble-rouse for a cause.”
Briefly Noted; The New Yorker; Mar 31, 2014.

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