Meaning of flash crowd | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A large audience for a sporting event that is unexpected because of large numbers of game-day ticket sales rather than advance tickets.
2. A crowd that forms suddenly.
3. The fashionable public.
   obsolete

Examples

“As mentioned in the Introduction, it is crucial to enhance content delivery during flash crowd events.”

“Sure, you'll get trapped once in a while with a flash crowd. Like the first time Satchel Paige pitched in Cleveland. We thought we'd get 55,000, and we ended up with 78,000.”

“It was almost like a flash crowd at a sporting event. In all, we had more than 90 attendees, plus 32 instructors from around the country.”

“When they did, they were flash crowds-—not much advance tickets, but lots of game-day sales.”

“The mall riot was the first successful riot in twenty years. “The police can get to a riot before it's a riot,” said McCord. “We call them flash crowds, and we watch for them.””

“From now on at the first word the police get of a flash crowd, of a mall riot—type crowd, the emergency switches are thrown at headquarters and they close down the displacement booths in the vicinity.”

“Indeed, without any form of social media other than word of mouth, flash crowds materialize almost spontaneously.”

“They had real power now, commanding flash crowds to appear anywhere on issues that touched them.”

“Later flash crowds involved getting dozens of people to perch on a stone ledge in Central Park all making bird noises, a “Zombie walk” in San Francisco, and a silent dance party at London's Victoria Station.”

“A new type is the flash crowd (or flash mob). Flash crowds might gather, for example, to engage in a pillow fight.”

“To see the Hurst with tents encamp'd on, Look around Lawrence's at Hampton, Join the flash crowd (the horse being led Into the yard, and clean'd and fed); Talk to Dav. Hudson and Cy. Davis.”

“It was a low-grade, flash crowd with barrels of money and all as crooked as a switch-back railway, men and women both, so that one fine night when a second-story worker handed me a proposition for opening the back door I said, "All right, ...”

“There is a legend about each; she is either an angel of purity and light, or a beautiful monster of iniquity; she has turned the heads of kings—'kings' in a vaguely royal plural— completely round on their shoulders, or she has built out of her earnings a hospital for crippled children; the watery-sentimental eye of the flash crowd in its cups sees in her a Phryne, a Mrs. Fry, or a Saint Cecilia.”

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