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riot act

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noun
a former English law requiring mobs to disperse after a magistrate reads the law to them
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type of:
law

part of:
criminal law
noun
a vigorous reprimand
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"I read him the riot act"

type of:
reproof reproval rebuke reprehension reprimand

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