disorderly crowd
1crowd — I. verb Etymology: Middle English crouden, from Old English crūdan; akin to Middle High German kroten to crowd, Old English crod multitude, Middle Irish gruth curds Date: before 12th century intransitive verb 1. a. to press on ; hurry b …
2crowd — vb 1 *press, bear, bear down, squeeze, jam Analogous words: *push, shove, thrust, propel: *force, compel, constrain 2 *pack, cram, stuff, ram, tamp Analogous words: compress (see CONTRACT): *compact, consolidate, concentrate …
3crowd — crowd1 [kroud] vi. [ME crouden < OE crudan, to press, drive, akin to MHG kroten, to oppress < IE base * greut , to compel, press > CURD, Ir gruth, curdled milk] 1. to press, push, or squeeze 2. to push one s way (forward, into, through,… …
4Crowd manipulation — March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963 led by Martin Luther King Vladmir Lenin addresses a crowd of chee …
5crowd — crowd1 crowder, n. /krowd/, n. 1. a large number of persons gathered closely together; throng: a crowd of angry people. 2. any large number of persons. 3. any group or set of persons with something in common: The restaurant attracts a theater… …
6crowd — I [[t]kraʊd[/t]] n. 1) a large number of persons gathered together; throng 2) any group of persons having something in common: the theater crowd[/ex] 3) a group of spectators; audience: the opening night crowd[/ex] 4) the common people; the… …
7crowd — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. gathering, concourse, horde, press, mass, gang, mob, multitude; host, herd, swarm, rout, crush, throng; informal, set, coterie, clique; populace, rabble, hoi polloi. See assemblage. II (Roget s IV) n …
8rioting crowd — crowd that has lost control and begun to behave in a violent disorderly way …
9football (soccer) — ▪ soccer Introduction also called association football or soccer game in which two teams of 11 players, using any part of their bodies except their hands and arms, try to maneuver the ball into the opposing team s goal. Only the goalkeeper… …
10rabble — 1. n. 1 a disorderly crowd; a mob. 2 a contemptible or inferior set of people. 3 (prec. by the) the lower or disorderly classes of the populace. Phrases and idioms: rabble rouser a person who stirs up the rabble or a crowd of people in agitation… …
