Stampede

Quick meaning: Stampede is a noun meaning A wild, headlong running away or scamper of a number of animals, usually caused by fright.

Meaning

A wild, headlong running away or scamper of a number of animals, usually caused by fright.

More Meanings

1. A situation in which many people in a crowd are trying to move in the same direction at the same time, especially in consequence of a panic.
2. An event at which cowboy skills are displayed; a rodeo.
3. (figurative) A sudden unconcerted acting together of a number of persons due to, or as if due to, some common impulse.
4. To cause (a drove or herd of animals) to run away or scamper in a wild, headlong manner, usually due to fright.
5. To cause animals (owned by a person) to run away or scamper in this manner.
6. To cause (people in a crowd) to move in the same direction at the same time, especially due to panic.
7. To cause (an individual) to act hastily or rashly.

Example Sentences

a stampede toward US bonds in the credit markets

Say, Smoke, this ain't no stampede. It's a exode-us. They must be a thousand men ahead of us an' ten thousand behind.

The annual Muslim Hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, which is attended by millions of pilgrims, has increasingly suffered from stampedes.

So all the people, Sheila learned that night, were going away from London; and soon she and her husband would join in the general stampede of the very last dwellers in town.

Word Forms

• stampedes
• stampeding
• stampeded

Synonyms for stampede

Depending on context, synonyms include crush, flight, jam, rush, stampedo, trampling.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include crush, scramble, scuffle, rodeo, panic, rush.

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