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Definition of rabble : 1. A confused, incoherent discourse; a medley of voices; a chatter.
2. A tumultuous crowd of vulgar, noisy people; a mob; a confused, disorderly throng.
3. An iron bar, with the end bent, used in stirring or skimming molten iron in the process of puddling.
4. Of or pertaining to a rabble; like, or suited to, a rabble; disorderly; vulgar.
5. To insult, or assault, by a mob; to mob; as, to rabble a curate.
6. To rumple; to crumple.
7. To speak in a confused manner.
8. To stir or skim with a rabble, as molten iron.
9. To utter glibly and incoherently; to mouth without intelligence.

Synonyms:

ragtag, rabblement, syndicate, ring, tag and rag, collection, rich, rag, age group, ragtag and bobtail, array, scum of the earth, underclass, the great unwashed, over, the vulgar, busload, pack, the proletariat, lower class, riffraff, lumpenproletariat, family, prole, club, assemblage, tag, crime syndicate, dregs of the people, circle, lower classes, and bobtail, the rabble, gang, the working class, scum, proletarian, DREG, rout, crush, trash, unwashed, the lowest of the low, canaille, constellation

great unwashed, masses, multitude, commoner, legion, throng, people, countryman, bourgeoisie, mob, public, countrywoman, horde, bourgeois, crowd, populace, peasantry, proletariat, mass, host

Usage examples:

• Up another flight of steps, then yet another, although the crazed rabble was not pressing them so very hard, just now. - "The Lost City", Joseph E. Badger, Jr..
• In France, after the disastrous failure of St. Louis's first expedition, the rabble said that Mahomet was now stronger than Christ. - "Chaucer and His England", G. G. Coulton.
• Someone had loosed a few score rabbits for the delight of the rabble. - "The Panchronicon", Harold Steele Mackaye.