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Riot act   /rˈaɪət ækt/   Listen
Riot act

noun
1.
A vigorous reprimand.
2.
A former English law requiring mobs to disperse after a magistrate reads the law to them.





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"Riot act" Quotes from Famous Books



... no young person of sixteen could possibly want to devour in secret. To take infinite precautions, they complained, against the juvenile perusal of such eminently innocuous literature was like reading the Riot Act on an uninhabited island. Both reviews suffered a serious falling-off in circulation and influence. Peace hath its devastations as ...
— The Chronicles of Clovis • Saki


Words linked to "Riot act" :   reprimand, rebuke, reproval, law, criminal law, reproof, reprehension, jurisprudence


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