a disorderly crowd; mob.

the rabble, the lower classes; the common people

The nobility held the rabble in complete contempt.

to beset as a rabble does; mob.

noun

commonality , commoners , crowd , drove , flock , gang , gathering , herd , hoi polloi , horde , lower class , mass , masses , multitude , pack , proletariat , rank and file , riffraff , ring , riot , scum , throng , dreg , lumpenproletariat , ragtag and bobtail , canaille , coarse , commonalty , demos , dregs , mob , populace , rabblerout , ragtag , swarm , trash , varletry