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stampede

[stam-peed]

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noun

a sudden, frenzied rush or headlong flight of a herd of frightened animals, especially cattle or horses.

any headlong general flight or rush.

Western U.S., Canada. a celebration, usually held annually, combining a rodeo, contests, exhibitions, dancing, etc.

verb (used without object)

to scatter or flee in a stampede: People stampeded from the burning theater.

to make a general rush: On hearing of the sale, they stampeded to the store.

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verb (used with object)

to cause to stampede.

to rush or overrun (a place): Customers stampeded the stores.

Origin:
1815–25, Americanism; < American Spanish estampida, Spanish, equivalent to estamp(ar) to stamp + -ida noun suffix

Related forms

stam·ped·er, noun

un·stam·ped·ed, adjective

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It was only the latest deadly stampede at a crowded soccer stadium.

The students were sneaking out, first one at a time, then a stampede.

The stampede might be almost as destructive as the fire.

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It was only the latest deadly stampede at a crowded soccer stadium.

The students were sneaking out, first one at a time, then a stampede.

The stampede might be almost as destructive as the fire.

As the aid convoy pulls into the camp, a stampede erupts.

The end of this week certainly appears to be a stampede.

Get a first look at the remarkable illustrations, including a triceratops stampede.

Panic ensued, and hundreds of people died in the chaotic stampede that followed.

Once, the tedious mornings and afternoons were gloriously broken by the bell and the stampede outside.

Nobody's buzzing them with an airplane or a helicopter and forcing them to stampede and be stressed.

But all too often, the effort's white-elephant stampede over the idiot meadows of youth tramples blindly over well-marked cliffs.

The result is a stampede for an internship-any internship.

Panic ensued and hundreds of people died in the chaotic stampede that followed.

Whether there will be a stampede to buy is another matter.

At the end of holidays, there's usually a stampede to the airport.

One can imagine blood in the streets in the stampede to get a chunk.

So with the thunderous clop of hoofs, our leaders begin a tremendous stampede to evade danger.

IT corrals all the subtly and finesse of the stampede of professional sports in world pop culture.

But the sharing stampede is nevertheless gathering pace.

He doesn't try to seduce or stampede people into agreeing to something they don't want to agree to.

For stand-bys, there are several crunching fights and a good old cattle stampede.

Exhibit number one is the hysterical mob stampede into the anthropogenic global warming hoax.

Although there was a mini stampede to get seats for the.

The theater opened to a stampede of journalists who had lined up hours ahead.

The herd stampede toward slang and cliche cannot be impeded, interestingly.

Confusing that stampede is a subtle distinction: the steering that push media do can be intense, or it can be ambient.

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World English Dictionary

stampede (stæmˈpiːd)

—n
1.	an impulsive headlong rush of startled cattle or horses
2.	headlong rush of a crowd: a stampede of shoppers
3.	any sudden large-scale movement or other action, such as a rush of people to support a candidate
4.	(Western US), (Canadian) a rodeo event featuring fairground and social elements

—vb
5.	to run away or cause to run away in a stampede

[C19: from American Spanish estampida, from Spanish: a din, from estampar to stamp, of Germanic origin; see stamp]

stam'peder

—n

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Word Origin & History

stampede

1828, from Mex.Sp. estampida, from Sp., "an uproar," from estamper "to stamp, press, pound," from Gmc. root of Eng. stamp (v.). The verb is from 1823. The political sense is first recorded 1846. As the name of an annual exhibition of cowboy skills in Calgary, Alberta, Canada,

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it is attested from 1912.

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