Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
alt. A person who tries to stir up masses of people for political action by appealing to their emotions rather than their reason. A demagogue. n. A person who tries to stir up masses of people for political action by appealing to their emotions rather than their reason. A demagogue.
WordNet
Usage examples of "rabble-rouser".
Alexander the Coppersmith did his worst, painting me as a seditionist, a rabble-rouser, but above all, as an arsonist.
One feminist publication had brought out a noisy contingent of rabble-rousers who sat near Riesner, trying to engage him in dialog, but Judge Milne imposed silence in his court with a slight raising of the eyebrow.
If the races involved did not cool down swiftly, Japanese and Koepanger rabble-rousers would be held in segregated detention in pearl sheds.
When some cheap racketeering rabble-rousers come around trying to stir up trouble, they can't help getting sore, and then somebody may get hurt.
Or one would expect it to be issued by a group of rabble-rousers, for the purpose of inciting the lowest elements of the population to violence against any business office that owns an electronic computer and thus deprives them of their "right to consume.
A New Age hardware store had come and gone, as had a veritable parade of wackos including porn moviemakers, tabloid reporters, feminist rabble-rousers, and militants.