crowd up

verb

To come together, to form a crowd.

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Meanings

verbcrowd up (third-person singular simple present crowds up, present participle crowding up, simple past and past participle crowded up)

present singular third person crowds up · participle present crowding up · participle past crowded up · past crowded up

  1. intransitiveTo come together, to form a crowd.

    They all crowded up and leaned over the rails, nearly in my face, and kept still, watching with all their might. I could see them first-rate, but they couldn't see me.

    1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VIII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC
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Chicago

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