Lynch mob
Lynch mob noun - A mob that kills a person for some presumed offense without legal authority.
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Vigilantes and lynch mob are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Vigilantes" instead a noun phrase "Lynch mob".
Vigilantes
Lynch mob and vigilantes are semantically related. You can use "Lynch mob" instead a noun "Vigilantes".
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- Besides the movie's fascist implications, its celebration of teenaged vigilantes also became Harsher in Hindsight after the Brooke Hart incident that same year, where a lynch mob made up mostly of college students stormed a jail where two murder suspects were held and hanged them.
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