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.
See also:
  • marshal together
  • group (someone or something) together
  • group together
  • herd together
  • scrape together
  • gather in
  • gather up
  • hold a meeting
  • heap up
  • cluster together