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huddle

2 noun
     
Related topics: American Football
huddle2 [countable]
1 a group of people or things that are close together, but not arranged in any particular order, pattern, or system
huddle of
a huddle of straw huts
Huddles of men stood around talking.
2DSA a group of players in American football who gather around one player who tells them the plan for the next part of the game
3

get/go into a huddle

to form a small group away from other people in order to discuss something
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