depreciative. A crew, a rabble.

A contemptuous name given to a body of people; rabble; esp. the camp followers of an army.

A disorderly, disorganized, or unruly crowd; a boisterous throng of people; a mob.

A rabble, a mob. Obsolete.

†A group (of young men or boys) (obsolete). Also: a group of worthless or contemptible people, riff-raff; a rowdy group of people, a rabble (also…

A rabble; an unruly crowd, a group of hangers-on.

A disorderly, disorganized, or unruly crowd; = rabble, n.1 1a. Frequently with of. Now chiefly literary or Scottish and English regional (northern).

A collection of people conceived of as socially inferior or worthless.

= rabble, n.1 1a 1b.

transferred. In particularized sense: An assemblage or body of ‘scum’. Obsolete.

= scum, n. 3b. Obsolete.

transferred. A disorderly crowd, a mob. rare.

A rebellious or unruly mob. Cf. rabble rout, n.

A disorderly or riotous crowd, a rabble.

A contemptuous term for drabbled people.

A disorderly or tumultuous troop or crowd.

A rowdy crowd, rabble; also, one of such a crowd. Cf. scurf, n.1 4.

colloquial (chiefly British, originally Military slang). A worthless or contemptible group or crowd of people. Also occasionally without depreciative…