- 1a group of animals of the same type that live and feed together a herd of cows/deer/elephants a beef/dairy herd compare flock
- 2(usually disapproving) a large group of people of the same type She pushed her way through a herd of lunchtime drinkers. the common herd (= ordinary people) Why follow the herd (= do and think the same as everyone else)? Idioms
to keep watch or control over someone or something police riding herd on crowds of youths on the streets
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