RABBLE

n. 1 mob, crowd, horde, throng, swarm, gang We narrowly escaped the wrath of the rabble fighting the police in the square 2 the rabble. Derogatory masses, proletariat, hoi polloi, commoners, peasantry, ragtag and bobtail, vermin, outcasts, riff-raff, scum, dregs (of society), lower classes, canaille, commonalty, Colloq trash, the great unwashed He always refers to blue-collar workers as 'the rabble'