lynch mob

1. 1.

   a mob that kills a person for some presumed offense without legal authority

   Broadermob

Questions about lynch mob

What does lynch mob mean?

lynch mob means "a mob that kills a person for some presumed offense without legal authority".

Is lynch mob a common word?

lynch mob is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.