huddled

hud·dle  (hdl)

n.

1. A densely packed group or crowd, as of people or animals.

2. Football A brief gathering of a team's players behind the line of scrimmage to receive instructions for the next play.

3. A small private conference or meeting.

v. hud·dled, hud·dling, hud·dles

v.intr.

1. To crowd together, as from cold or fear.

2. To draw or curl one's limbs close to one's body; crouch.

3. Football To gather in a huddle.

4. Informal To gather together for conference or consultation: During the crisis the President's national security advisers huddled.

v.tr.

1. To cause to crowd together.

2. To draw (oneself) together in a crouch.

3. Chiefly British To arrange, do, or make hastily or carelessly.

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[From huddle, to crowd together, possibly from Low German hudeln; see (s)keu- in Indo-European roots.]

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huddler n.

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Adj.

1.

huddled - crowded or massed together; "give me...your huddled masses"; "the huddled sheep turned their backs against the wind" crowded - overfilled or compacted or concentrated; "a crowded theater"; "a crowded program"; "crowded trains"; "a young mother's crowded days"