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A crowd that stopped waiting for permission and started taking inventory.
means A noisy, often violent outbreak of public disorder, usually involving a crowd that's lost patience with the rules.
from Comes through Old French 'riote' (dispute, quarrel), probably from the verb 'rihoter,' meaning to quarrel or wrangle — its deeper roots are murky and disputed, but the sense of noisy conflict runs through it from the start. English borrowed it in the Middle Ages, and it slowly escalated from a petty squabble to full-blown civil chaos.
- legal line
- Usually defined by a specific headcount, often twelve or more
- root word
- Old French riote meant mere noisy dispute or quarrel
- spark vs fuel
- The trigger is rarely the actual reason it spreads
- idiom drift
- A riot of color just means spectacular, no looting required