crowd together

crowd together

1. To move close together. We were so cold while waiting in line that we crowded together for warmth.
2. To position things close together. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "crowd" and "together." I tried crowding all of my clothes together to make room for my jacket, but it still wouldn't fit in the suitcase.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

crowd someone or something together

to push or squeeze people or things together. See if you can crowd them together and get more in the row. I am afraid that I crowded the plants together too much.
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crowd together

to pack tightly together. The tenants crowded together in the lobby. All the kittens crowded together to keep warm.
See also: crowd, together
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • too close for comfort
  • too close to call
  • close to (one's) heart
  • close to your heart
  • be close to the mark
  • be close to/near the mark
  • come to a close
  • just like that
  • like that
  • (just) like this/that
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The currency of Captiva is cigarettes, the native costumes are a jumble of old uniforms, and the citizens--apparently all male--tend to crowd together in tiny rooms.
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But access to electricity can be hard to find in overcrowded camps, nor is it always free in cafes where young and old crowd together over a socket, waiting anxiously to phone home.
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Get Down and Get With It was an absolute footstomper if there ever was one, while the arm-waving My Oh My brought the band and crowd together as one.
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Every year millions of Muslims from around the world crowd together for rituals in and around Makkah, Islam's holiest city.
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But what joined this tiny crowd together was their deep and abiding passion for princesses.
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My spy revealed: "Simon was talking and flirting with her for ages before they disappeared into the crowd together, hand in hand.
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Some etymologists believe the phrase comes from the haphazard way pigs crowd together with no apparent hierarchy.
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Surrounded by such weak hearts, ministers can find many a reason to take the line of least resistance and channel their efforts to the South-East, where Parliamentary marginals crowd together and the civil servants who advise them just happen to reside.
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BACK to Windermere Club to meet a Dennis Stokes Select, a good crowd together with a fine match with pounds 210 raised for charity.
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It would be brilliant if we could get some or all of the crowd together for a reunion photo."
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It's great for me because you get the whites of the eyes thrill of being in front of a crowd together with being able to use the mic.
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Hundreds, sometimes thousands of emperor penguins crowd together conserving body heat.
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Why do so many gannets crowd together on Bonaventure Island?
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Gore's strategy was to put the same crowd together with the Democratic yuppies, unreconstructed cold warriors, former pot smokers and white rock-and-rollers to whom he is making a generational appeal.
Now we are three