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means A loud, widespread wave of public protest or anger over something, usually short-lived but intense while it lasts.

from Straightforward compound from Middle English 'outcrien' — 'out' + 'cry' — literally a cry sent outward, as in a shout raised in alarm or protest. Originally meant a literal loud cry or call distress, the kind a town might raise to summon help or sound alarm; it drifted over centuries from the literal shout to the figurative public uproar we mean today.