1834 May 59 In their ambition to be mob-leaders, they were, in fact, mob-led.
1849 J. O. O'Connell I. v. 104 Feargus O'Connor carried the election... He was everywhere and everything;—speechifier,..gutter-agent, mob leader.
1986 53 804 Combining the extremes of the social hierarchy, aristocrat and mob leader..he is..a link between the upper class and the underworld.