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flock

UK/flɒk/ US/flɑk/ fairly common
noun (5) verb (2)

noun

1.
2.

a group of birds

3.

(often followed by `of'') a large number or amount or extent

  • “a batch of letters”
  • “a deal of trouble”
  • “a lot of money”
  • “he made a mint on the stock market”
  • “it must have cost plenty”
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4.

an orderly crowd

  • “a troop of children”
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5.

a group of sheep or goats

verb

1.

move as a crowd or in a group

  • “Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears”
2.

come together as in a cluster or flock

  • “The poets constellate in this town every summer”
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Origin

From Middle English flok, from Old English flocc (“flock, company, troop”), from Proto-West Germanic *flokk, from Proto-Germanic *flukkaz (“crowd, troop”).

Phrases

  • birds of a feather flock together
  • birds of the feather flock together
  • flock camera
  • flock paper
  • flock together
  • flock worker's lung
  • flower of the flock
  • species flock

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