mutiny
MYOO-tih-neenounMeaning a rebellion, especially by sailors or soldiers against their officers
Memory hook MUTE-iny: the crew won’t stay MUTE. On the fishing boat, the ship’s cats, fed up with sardines, take over the wheel and steer for the cheese island while the captain splutters; it is a mutiny!
Tired of moldy biscuits, the sailors staged a mutiny and locked the captain in his cabin.
In context The crew had sailed for months without pay, so when the captain ordered them around the stormy cape, they refused and seized the ship in a mutiny.
Similar rebellion, revolt, uprising, insurgency
Opposite obedience, loyalty
From French mutin, “rebellious.”