mobocracy n a political system in which a mob is the source of control; government by the masses Usage(s) We have to choose between secularism and religious fundamentalism, between democracy and mobocracy, between unity and disintegration. Clark called the decision a victory for "mobocracy. The first movie, punctuating California's small-town sunniness with the thunder of deadpan mobocracy, became a cult classic. Synonym(s) ochlocracy