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flash mob
noun
a large crowd that materialises in a public place to perform a scripted action for several minutes before dissolving US- They probably don’t realize it, but they’ve just witnessed San Francisco’s second “flash mob,” a phenomenon that was born in New York and is spreading across the United States and Europe with the speed of an Internet virus. — San Francisco Chronicle, p. D1, 11 August 2003
- Once there, participants in flash mobs, the compulsively deconstructed geek-chic game of the summer, briefly perform some collective activity, then flee. — New York Times, p. WK5, 17 August 2003
- Organizing a “flash mob” basically involves e-mailing a bunch of people with instructions to show up at a certain place for a few moments, then disappear. — Ventura County (California) Star, 1 July 2003
- In recent weeks, New Yorkers have been using forwarded e-mails to coordinate “flash mobs,” or not-so-random crowds that appear and dissipate within a matter of minutes. — Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2003
- One blog proprietor gave the concept a name—“flash mobs”–after a 1973 science-fiction short story, “Flash Crowd,” which deals with the unexpected downside of cheap teleportation technology. — Harper’s Magazine, pp. 57–58, March 2006
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