stampede
stam peed
- n a headlong rush of people on a common impulse
when he shouted `fire' there was a stampede to the exits - n a wild headlong rush of frightened animals (horses or cattle)
- v cause to run in panic
Thunderbolts can stampede animals - v cause a group or mass of people to act on an impulse or hurriedly and impulsively
The tavern owners stampeded us into overeating - v act, usually en masse, hurriedly or on an impulse
Companies will now stampede to release their latest software - v run away in a stampede
- Murmurs that McCain was flirting with a pro-choice running mate like former Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge or Joe Lieberman had Rush Limbaugh and his army in full stampede.
- On to the old Indian lands swept 50,000 men, women, children, pioneers, drifters, squatters, scoundrels, in a mad stampede to stake out new homesteads.
- Hundreds of students jammed into a narrow school staircase panicked and set off a stampede Thursday that left at least five students dead and another 24 injured, a New Delhi .