The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rabble \Rab"ble\, n. [Probably named from the noise made by it (see Rabble, v. i.) cf. D. rapalje rabble, OF. & Prov. F. rapaille.]
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A tumultuous crowd of vulgar, noisy people; a mob; a confused, disorderly throng.
I saw, I say, come out of London, even unto the presence of the prince, a great rabble of mean and light persons.
--Ascham.Jupiter, Mercury, Bacchus, Venus, Mars, and the whole rabble of licentious deities.
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A confused, incoherent discourse; a medley of voices; a chatter.
The rabble, the lowest class of people, without reference to an assembly; the dregs of the people. ``The rabble call him `lord.'''
--Shak.
Wikipedia
The Rabble are a punk band from Auckland, New Zealand, with a street punk aesthetic that formed by Brothers Charles Hill-Hayr ( chazz rabble) and Rupert Hill-Hayr in the NZ summer of 2000/2001 while still attending Orewa College. Their official myspace page went live on 29 February 2004. They collaborated with Mark Unseen of Boston band The Unseen to create the song and video for "This World is Dead" from their album The Battle's Almost Over. The Rabble went on tour in the UK and Europe from August 2009 to January 2010 as well as writing and recording for their next album. They recorded at York Street studios in Auckland early in 2008 , and the bass and guitars were tracked at Number 8 wire Recording studio, by Chazz Rabble.. In April 2010, they were in line-up at Punk & Disorderly Festival in Berlin. On 1 August 2011, The Rabble released an album that was long awaited by anxious fans titled, "Life's A Journey". They were the second band to be announced for Rebellion Festival 2013 along with California punk band Left Alone after their successful show at Rebellion in 2009. They were joined by controversial act, The Casualties and Scottish punk act, The Exploited. In the Early demos they had more of a punk-core records street punk as opposed to the recent pop rock sound they adopted. the Lyrics were sometimes in English and some times in Malay due to the original vocalist's (Ben) mother tongue of Malaysian. They also played along an Auckland-based Thai street punk band known as chaos city who at one point played for the Rabble and Auckland city Legends missing Teeth and the Rudies and made their name in the under ground Necropolis venue on the outskirts of the Auckland CBD. They have mixed reactions and reviews in the New Zealand punk scene, some love them and others hate them, having been criticized for being 'sell outs' by ' puritanical' 'punk's it could be argued that they never 'bought in' in the first place and used the underground as a stepping stone. Inactive for a few years, chazz rabble and rupe rabble both have solo projects.
Usage examples of "the rabble".
On the following day the rabble and the soldiers enter the coffee-houses, the convents, and the inns, and demand to be served with wine and eatables as much as they want, and then, heated by drink, they burn the excise offices, force open several prisons, and set free all the smugglers and deserters.
To look after the cannons they had rounded up a French, a Bavarian, and a Venetian artilleryman from the rabble of mercenaries that hung around Shahjahanabad.
I seek escape through the God Wall for the same reasons the Rabble seeks entrance to Chu.
The smoke dulled the greens of ledges and Rim where the Rabble waged a losing battle for survival.
He raised his eyes up out of the clutter to scan for the great ships thrusting their yards up, like High Church priests exalting the sacraments above the rabble, into the sky where the wind blew straight and brave.
And the rabble found that, as an emperor, he was just as anxious to be liked and applauded.