0 the activity of saying, writing, or doing things that make crowds of people excited or angry, usually intentionally in order to make them act in a particular way:
Politicians should not get involved in name-calling and rabble-rousing.
1 saying, writing, or doing things that make crowds of people excited or angry, usually intentionally in order to make them act in a particular way:
a rabble-rousing speech
She writes good rabble-rousing articles for numerous newspapers.
He toned down his racist rabble-rousing in order to be taken more seriously on the international stage.
This is just more rabble-rousing and headline-grabbing.
They excel at using social media for networking and rabble rousing.
rabble-rousing nationalism
He was a rabble-rousing speaker.
On his radio show he is in turn, argumentative, charming, rabble rousing and downright rude.
