Huddle

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A densely packed group or crowd, as of people or animals.
  • n. Football A brief gathering of a team's players behind the line of scrimmage to receive instructions for the next play.
  • n. A small private conference or meeting.
  • verb-intransitive. To crowd together, as from cold or fear.
  • verb-intransitive. To draw or curl one's limbs close to one's body; crouch.
  • verb-intransitive. Football To gather in a huddle.
  • verb-intransitive. Informal To gather together for conference or consultation: During the crisis the President's national security advisers huddled.
  • v. To cause to crowd together.
  • v. To draw (oneself) together in a crouch.
  • v. Chiefly British To arrange, do, or make hastily or carelessly.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. a dense and disorderly crowd
  • n. a brief meeting of all the players from one team that are on the field with the purpose of planning the following play.
  • v. to crowd together as when distressed or in fear
  • v. to curl one's legs up to the chest and keep one's arms close to the torso; to crouch; to assume a position similar to that of an embryo in the womb
  • v. To get together and discuss
  • v. to form a huddle.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb-intransitive. To press together promiscuously, from confusion, apprehension, or the like; to crowd together confusedly; to press or hurry in disorder; to crowd.
  • v. To crowd (things) together to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system.
  • v. To do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly; -- usually with a following preposition or adverb
  • n. A crowd; a number of persons or things crowded together in a confused manner; tumult; confusion.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To throw together in confusion; crowd together without order.
  • To perform in haste and disorder; put together or produce in a hurried manner: often with up, over, or together.
  • To put on in haste and disorder, as clothes: usually with on.
  • To hush (up).
  • To embrace.
  • To crowd; press together promiscuously; press or hurry in disorder.
  • In the University of Cambridge, to keep an act in a perfunctory manner, requiring no study, in order that the necessary oath may be taken.
  • n. A number of persons or things thrown together without rule or order; a confused crowd or cluster; a jumble.
  • n. A winning cast at shovel-board.
  • n. An old decrepit person.
  • n. A list.
  • Confused; jumbled.
  • In disorder; confusedly.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. crowd or draw together
  • n. (informal) a quick private conference
  • v. crouch or curl up
  • n. a disorganized and densely packed crowd
  • Verb Form
    huddled    huddles    huddling   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    clump    constellate    cluster    flock    group discussion    conference    crouch    bend    bow    stoop   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    huddled    huddling   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    crowd    tumult    confusion    gather    shrink    heap    drive   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Udell    befuddle    cuddle    muddle    puddle    ruddle   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    jumble    semicircle