- 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 outbuildings.
- They stood in a tight huddle, whispering.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- little
- small
- tight
- …
- get into
- go into
- break
- …
- in a huddle
- huddle of
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- (especially in American football ) a time when the players gather round to hear the plan for the next part of the game
- The team went into a huddle at half-time to discuss their tactics.
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘conceal’): perhaps of Low German origin.
Idioms
See huddle in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryget/go into a huddle (with somebody)
- to move close to somebody so that you can talk about something without other people hearing
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