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Noun: Riot Act

(law) a former English law requiring mobs to disperse after a magistrate reads the law to them

Noun: riot act

A vigorous reprimand
"I read him the riot act"

Derived forms: riot acts

Type of: law, rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval

Part of: criminal law

Encyclopedia: Riot Act

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