An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
MOBOCRACY
mobocracy, ochlocracy
(noun) a political system in which a mob is the source of control; government by the masses
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
mobocracy (countable and uncountable, plural mobocracies)
Rule or control by the mob (or by the mass of ordinary people); a mob as a politically powerful force.
Synonyms
• ochlocracy
Source: Wiktionary
Mob*oc"ra*cy, n. Etym: [Mob rabble + -cracy, as in democracy.]
Definition: A condition in which the lower classes of a nation control public affairs without respect to law, precedents, or vested rights. It is good name that Dr. Stevens has given to our present situation (for one can not call it a government), a mobocracy. Walpole.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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