\Mob*oc"ra*cy\, n. [Mob rabble + -cracy, as in
democracy.]
A condition in which the lower classes of a nation control
public affairs without respect to law, precedents, or vested
rights.
      It is good name that Dr. Stevens has given to our
      present situation (for one can not call it a
      government), a mobocracy.                --Walpole.