crowds

/kɹaʊdz/ · noun

Meaning

A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
(with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
To press forward; to advance by pushing.
To press together or collect in numbers
To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
To fill by pressing or thronging together
(often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove.
To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
(now dialectal) A fiddle.
To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
An archaic stringed instrument associated particularly with Wales, though once played widely in Europe, and characterized by a vaulted back and enough space for the player to stop each of the six strings on the fingerboard.

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