Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A densely packed group or crowd, as of people or animals.
- noun Football A brief gathering of a team's players behind the line of scrimmage to receive instructions for the next play.
- noun A small private conference or meeting.
- intransitive verb To crowd together, as from cold or fear.
- intransitive verb To draw or curl one's limbs close to one's body; crouch.
- intransitive verb Football To gather in a huddle.
- intransitive verb Informal To gather together for conference or consultation.
- intransitive verb To cause to crowd together.
- intransitive verb To draw (oneself) together in a crouch.
- intransitive verb Chiefly British To arrange, do, or make hastily or carelessly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A number of persons or things thrown together without rule or order; a confused crowd or cluster; a jumble.
- noun A winning cast at shovel-board.
- noun An old decrepit person.
- noun A list.
- Confused; jumbled.
- In disorder; confusedly.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To crowd (things) together to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system.
- transitive verb To do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly; -- usually with a following preposition or adverb
- noun A crowd; a number of persons or things crowded together in a confused manner; tumult; confusion.
- intransitive verb To press together promiscuously, from confusion, apprehension, or the like; to crowd together confusedly; to press or hurry in disorder; to crowd.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
dense anddisorderly crowd - noun American football a brief meeting of all the players from one team that are on the field with the purpose of planning the following play.
- verb intransitive to
crowd together as whendistressed or infear - verb intransitive to
curl one'slegs up to thechest and keep one'sarms close to thetorso ; tocrouch ; to assume aposition similar to that of anembryo in thewomb - verb To get together and discuss
- verb intransitive, American football to form a huddle.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb crowd or draw together
- noun (informal) a quick private conference
- verb crouch or curl up
- noun a disorganized and densely packed crowd
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Football fans will perhaps be pleased to know that the word huddle, from a Germanic verb to do with “crowding together” could it come from a primeval idea of a group hiding from animals or people, or protecting someone or something from being found or seen by others?
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Football fans will perhaps be pleased to know that the word huddle, from a Germanic verb to do with “crowding together” could it come from a primeval idea of a group hiding from animals or people, or protecting someone or something from being found or seen by others?
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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The Colts huddle is pure posturing, no need for it, zero practical use whatsoever.
The Peyton Puzzle: Redskins Week 6 preview Box Seats blogger 2010
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"I thought he was very poised and seemed to adapt to being able to go in and call the huddle right away," Cable said.
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But at least once a game Mularkey will put Ryan in the no-huddle, which is when the third-year quarterbacks' true talents come out.
Rodgers-Ryan must-see Anthony Stalter 2011
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About 75 people in all, with, among other things, cooling devices to make sure the huddle, which is -- shuttle, I should say, which is hot as a frying pan when it lands, gets cooled off properly.
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Instead, the admiral called a huddle to discuss tactics.
Sun of Suns 2006
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"It must have been 15 years ago that Chip told me the huddle was the most overrated thing in all of sports," said Mark Linehan, a longtime Boston radio personality who was Kelly's roommate at the University of New Hampshire.
SI.com 2011
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Finally, South African foreign minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane called a huddle of the major players in a last-gasp effort to find compromise language.
News 2011
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"The guys that are in the huddle are the ones that have to say something, step up when things are tough and so there's a number of those guys," Stoops said.
Brownsville Herald : By BETSY BLANEY 2010
chained_bear commented on the word huddle
The collective noun for a group of skunks. Cute! Seen here.
October 13, 2009