crowd up
crowd up
1. To gather together into a crowd. People started crowded up in front of the store as early as 6 AM ahead of their huge Black Friday sale.
2. To gather or force people together in a crowd. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "crowd" and "up." The guards crowded us up like cattle to transport us to the new maximum security facility.
See also: crowd, up
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- marshal together
- group (someone or something) together
- group together
- herd together
- scrape together
- gather in
- gather up
- hold a meeting
- heap up
- cluster together