crowd up

English

Verb

crowd up (third-person singular simple present crowds up, present participle crowding up, simple past and past participle crowded up)

(intransitive) To come together, to form a crowd.
- 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VIII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
  They all crowded up and leaned over the rails, nearly in my face, and kept still, watching with all their might. I could see them first-rate, but they couldn't see me.

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