Usually means: Sudden, uncontrolled rush of animals.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. stampede: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. stampede: Merriam-Webster
  3. stampede: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. stampede: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. stampede: Collins English Dictionary
  6. stampede: Vocabulary.com
  7. Stampede, stampede: Wordnik
  8. stampede: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. stampede: Wiktionary
  10. stampede: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. stampede: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. stampede: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. stampede: Dictionary.com
  14. stampede: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. stampede: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  17. Stampede: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. stampede: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. stampede: Rhymezone
  20. stampede: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. Stampede: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. stampede: FreeDictionary.org
  23. stampede: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. stampede: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. stampede: Legal dictionary

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  1. stampede: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stampede: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stampede: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See stampeded as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A wild, headlong running away or scamper of a number of animals, usually caused by fright.
noun:  (by extension)
noun:  A situation in which many people in a crowd are trying to move in the same direction at the same time, especially in consequence of a panic.
noun:  (Canada, US) An event at which cowboy skills are displayed; a rodeo.
noun:  (figurative) A sudden unconcerted acting together of a number of persons due to, or as if due to, some common impulse.
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To cause (a drove or herd of animals) to run away or scamper in a wild, headlong manner, usually due to fright.
verb:  To cause animals (owned by a person) to run away or scamper in this manner.
verb:  (by extension) To cause (people in a crowd) to move in the same direction at the same time, especially due to panic.
verb:  (by extension) To cause (an individual) to act hastily or rashly.
verb:  (figurative) To cause (people) to act in a sudden unconcerted manner due to, or as if due to, some common impulse.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  Of a drove or herd of animals: to run away or scamper in a wild, headlong manner, usually due to fright.
verb:  (by extension) Of people in a crowd: to move in the same direction at the same time, especially due to panic.
verb:  (figurative) Of people: to act in a sudden unconcerted manner due to, or as if due to, some common impulse.

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