huddle

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The play drawn up by Jeff Capel in the huddle was apparently a good one, as

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  1. noun A densely packed group or crowd, as of people or animals.
  2. noun Football A brief gathering of a team's players behind the line of scrimmage to receive instructions for the next play.
  3. noun A small private conference or meeting.
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  • Spread offenses usually feature no-huddle, a hurry-up type pace, a shotgun snap, one running back (sometimes none) and four to five wide receivers. —  Hornell Evening Tribune Homepage RSS
  • The play drawn up by Jeff Capel in the huddle was apparently a good one, as —  FanHouse
  • They weren't no-huddle, they were routine and I wonder how that happens. —  LSUsports.net
  • They even used some no-huddle, and Flacco was comfortable with it.
  • Imagine in the NFL if you were playing the Eagles; in a no-huddle, they can move Westbrook to either a receiver or a running back position depending on the defensive personnel. —  Rocky Top Talk
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  1. From huddle, to crowd together, possibly from Low German hudeln; see (s)keu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English as if *hudelen for *huderen, of which the only two examples found present the spelling hoderen (hodre, hodur), huddle or press together, also cover, = Low German *hudern (Mätzner), diminutive hudderken, of hens, sit upon the chickens and keep them warm, also of nurses, to cuddle or coddle children (de kinder in den slaap hudderken, lull children to sleep), freq. of Middle English huden, hiden, from Anglo-Saxon hy¯dan (= Low German hüden), hide, cover: see hide. The change from -er to -el (-le) may have been due to Middle English hudels, hudles, hidels, etc., from Anglo-Saxon hy¯dels, a hiding-place, from hy¯dan, hide. The D. hoetelen, bungle, = Danish hutle, huddle, botch, bungle, = Swedish hutla, shuffle, = German hudeln, do a thing hastily and carelessly, is a different word, connected with hustle, q. v., but it may have affected the form and sense of the English word.
  2. from huddle, v.
  3. from huddle, adjective
 

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