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| NOUN: | 1. The common people: common (used in plural), commonality, commonalty, commoner (used in plural), crowd, hoi polloi, mass (used in plural), pleb (used in plural), plebeian (used in plural), populace, public, ruck1, third estate. See OVER. 2. A very large number of things grouped together: army, cloud, crowd, drove, flock, horde, host, legion, mass, multitude, ruck1, score (used in plural), swarm, throng. See BIG, GROUP. 3. An enormous number of persons gathered together: crowd, crush, drove, flock, horde, mass, multitude, press, ruck1, swarm, throng. See BIG, GROUP. 4. Informal. An organized group of criminals, hoodlums, or wrongdoers: band2, gang, pack, ring1. See GROUP. | | VERB: | 1. To congregate, as around a person: crowd, flock, press, throng. See COLLECT, TIGHTEN. 2. To fill to excess by compressing or squeezing tightly: cram, crowd, jam, load, pack, stuff. Informal : jam-pack. See FULL, TIGHTEN.
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