Synonym: mob, ragtag, ragtag and bobtail, riffraff, rout. Similar words: scrabble, babble, dabble, babbler, squabble, rabbi, crabby, rabbit. Meaning: ['ræbl] 
n. 1. a disorderly crowd of people 2. disparaging terms for the common people.
n. 1. a disorderly crowd of people 2. disparaging terms for the common people. 31. I was in Soweto in the antiapartheid days andout of that country for being a rabble - rouser.
32. In 40 years, the Guards' Polo Club has changed, but it has managed to keep most of the rabble out.
33. Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble.
34. Now in America we have learned in actual practice to accept the rabble hypothesis with reservations.