Usually means: Law read before dispersing rioters.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. riot act: Merriam-Webster
  2. Riot Act: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Riot Act: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Riot Act: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Riot Act, riot act: Vocabulary.com
  6. Riot Act: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. riot act: Dictionary.com
  8. Riot Act (album), Riot Act (disambiguation), Riot Act, Riot act, The Riot Act (film), The Riot Act: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Riot act: Rhymezone
  10. riot act: FreeDictionary.org
  11. riot act: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. Riot Act: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. Riot Act: Wiktionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Riot Act (law), Riot Act, The Riot Act: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Riot Act: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Riot Act: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Riot Act)

noun:  (historical) An act of the Parliament of Great Britain which authorized local authorities to declare any group of twelve or more people to be unlawfully assembled and order them to disperse or face punitive action.


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