flash crowd
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.26 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
noun
A large audience for a sporting event that is unexpected because of large numbers of game-day ticket sales rather than advance tickets.
noun
Alternative form of flash mob.
Example Sentences
- "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."