verb, noun
verb [V] [usually +adv./prep.] ~ (up)
1 (of people or animals) to gather closely together, usually because of cold or fear:
We huddled together for warmth. * They all huddled around the fire. * People huddled up close to each other.
2 to hold your arms and legs close to your body, usually because you are cold or frightened:
I huddled under a blanket on the floor.
huddled adjective:
People were huddled together around the fire. * huddled figures in shop doorways * We found him huddled on the floor.
Part of speech: noun
1 a small group of people, objects or buildings that are close together, especially when they are not in any particular order:
People stood around in huddles. * The track led them to a huddle of barns and outbuildings.
2 (in American football) a time when the players gather round to hear the plan for the next part of the game
IDIOMS
get / go into a huddle (with sb) to move close to sb so that you can talk about sth without other people hearing
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for huddle is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is huddle a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, huddle is tagged as noun.
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