Reverse Dictionary: GROUP

NOUNS
► AGGROUPMENT arrangement in a group → 1822
► BANG a group, a crowd, a great number → 1727 Sc. & Amer. dial.
► BEND an organized company of men; a band; a party, a faction; a gang; a company → 1475 obs. exc. Amer. dial.
► BOUNDARY a collection, a group, as of people → 1939 Amer. dial.
► CANALLY a rabble, a mob, a crew → 1708 Sc.
► CAPTAIN COPPERTHORNE’S CREW a group or team without a stated hierarchy, where everyone wishes to lead → L18 sl., orig. nautical usage
► CLUDDER ► CLUTHER a cluster, a close group; a large quantity or mass of anything, gathered together → 1801 Eng. dial.
► CROWN a group of people or objects in a ring or circle → 1596
► DAD’S ARMY the Home Guard (1940-1945); hence, any grouping of older men with a united purpose; gently derogatory→ 1968 UK sl.
► DINGLE a group, a gathering → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► DOUTH a group of people; esp. an army or retinue → a1000 obs.
► GANG any social group (no criminal overtones) → L16
► GROUPLET a little group → 1837
► GROUPMENT a group; a placing in groups → 1887
► KAPOODLE a group; a crowd → 1915 Amer. dial.
► LYANCE a group of persons related to or allied with another → c1380 obs.
► MOB a company or group of associates → E19 sl.
► OUTLAY the crowd, the lot; a large group of people at a public gathering → 1909 Amer. dial.
► PACK AND BOODLE a crowd, a group → 1950 Amer. dial.
► PARCEL a small part, company, collection, or assemblage of persons, animals, or things; a group, lot, stet; a drove, flock, herd → 1588 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► PARROCK a group of people, animals, or things closely packed or huddled together; a bustling, stirring crowd, a mob; a conglomeration of objects → 1813 Sc.
► PASSEL a group of people, animal, or things; an indefinite, usually large, number or quantity → 1835 Amer. dial.
► PIP, SQUEAK, AND WILFRED a group of three things → 1920 Brit. sl.
► PITCH-UP one’s family or chums; a group or crowd → 1850 sl.
► POLYAD a group of more than two, or of an indeterminate number of things, persons, etc. → 1851
► QUINCURY a body of five men → 1632 obs.
► QUOTITY a certain number of individuals, etc. → 1837
► SCHOOL a troop or pack of people; an assembly; a swarm, a great number → 1851 Sc.
► SNARL a group → 1776 US

NOUNS – PERSON
► DAD the oldest member of a group → World War II Amer. sl.
► ONE OF THE CHAPS a member of one’s own gang or group → 1950s UK criminals’ sl.
► TEAMER a member of a team or group → 1934
► TEAMMAN a member of a team or group → 1954

PHRASES
► IN CAHOOTS acting as a group, usually used to suggest a conspiracy → 1862 sl., orig. US

VERBS
► AGGROUP to form or arrange in a group or groups → 1695
► GANG to act or move as a group → 1910s US sl.