stampeden.
/ˌstamˈpiːd/ 1.
a. A sudden rush and flight of a body of panic-stricken cattle.
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the mind > emotion > fear > apprehension > [noun] > panic > sudden rush of panic-stricken cattle
stampede1828
estampede1843
breakaway1891
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [noun] > herd > stampede
stampede1828
rush1855
α.
β. 1844 G. W. Kendall Narr. Santa Fé Exped. I. 96 ‘A stampede!’ shouted some of the old campaigners,..running towards their frightened animals.a1864 N. Hawthorne Dr. Grimshawe (1891) xviii. 227 Then, tossing their horns, they [the deer] set off on a stampede.1884 Times 3 Mar. 5/1 The shells..fortunately doing no damage, only causing a stampede among the mules and horses.1826 T. Flint Francis Berrian I. ii. 46 Instantly this prodigious multitude..took what the Spanish call the ‘stompado’. With a trampling like the noise of thunder,..they [sc. the horses] took to their heels.]
1828 in Missouri Hist. Rev. (1914) VIII. 187 A little before daylight, the mules made an abortive attempt to raise a stampido.
1834 Message from President 77 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (23rd Congr., 2nd Sess.: Senate Doc. 1) I A stupid sentinel last night..alarmed the camp and sent off in a stampedo the rest of the horses.
1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies xxvi. 230 About two hours before day there was a stampedo, or sudden rush of horses, along the purlieus of the camp.
1867 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 III. xxxi. 276 These visitations produced a serious practical result in a stampedo of horses.
b. North American. An exhibition of cowboy skills, a rodeo; spec. that held at Calgary, Alberta (usually Calgary Stampede), for the first time in 1912 and annually since 1919.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > equestrian sports except racing > rodeo > [noun]
rodeo1824
rodeoing1858
stampede1912
1912 Calgary (Alberta) Daily Herald 31 Aug. 6/1 Calgary is on the eve of its Stampede festival.
1919 Eye Opener (Calgary, Alberta) 9 Aug. 4 Come to Calgary Stampede Week and have the time of your life.
1923 C. M. Barbeau Indian Days 5 Picturesque stampedes take place every summer in the July celebrations at Banff.
1948 Ada (Okla.) Evening News 2 July 1/5 A capacity crowd was on hand for the opening performance of the Hereford Heaven Stampede.
1950 B. Hutchison Fraser xvii. 251 Here the ranchers and Indians gather once a year for the innocent fun of the stampede.
1974 Sat. Rev. World (U.S.) 2 Nov. 30/2 The Calgary Stampede during the first two weeks of each July..offer[s] competition in matches ranging from wild-cow milking to buffalo riding.
2.
a. A sudden or unreasoning rush or flight of persons in a body or mass; in American politics, a sudden unconcerted rush of a political convention for a candidate who seems likely to win. Also spec. (North American History), a concerted rush of prospectors to the goldfields.
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society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > prospecting > types of prospecting for gold, diamonds, or opal
stampede1846
river digging1850
pocket mining1872
potholing1885
sniping1897
Klondiking1900
specking1901
pork-knocking1965
the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > [noun] > violent > an act or instance of > of persons in a body
stampede1846
debacle1847
bum rush1987
society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > [noun] > selection of candidates > meeting to nominate candidate > rush of support for candidate at
stampede1846
α.
β. 1846 H. W. Longfellow Jrnl. 28 Dec. in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1891) II. ii. 69 There is a great ‘stampede’ on Parnassus at the present moment.1859 K. Cornwallis Panorama New World I. 352 A sort of stampede or unreasoning rush of about twelve thousand men, principally from Victoria, was the speedy consequence.1872 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining iii. iv. 202 Rocky Bar..has suffered somewhat from the stampede to the bars of the Snake River.1883 R. Gower My Reminisc. I. xiii. 236 We were stopped by a stampede of peasants, some on foot, others in carts and on horseback.1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. lxx. 568 What is called 'the break' comes..when the weaker factions, perceiving that the men of their first preference cannot succeed, transfer their votes... The vanquished, ashamed of their candidate, try to conceal themselves by throwing away their colours and joining in the cheers that acclaim the conqueror. In the picturesquely technical language of politicians, it is a Stampede.1893 Nation (N.Y.) 24 Aug. 140/3 Ward did not share the sanguine expectations of those converts who looked for an Anglican stampede into the Roman Church.1916 Yukon Territory (Canada Dept. Interior) 11 In the autumn of 1886 coarse gold was discovered in the Fortymile River, and..the usual stampede occurred.1937 C. L. Andrews Pioneers & Nuggets of Verse they Panned 17 The stampede to the gold fields of the Tanana Valley..caused an exodus from Dawson.1965 Canad. Geogr. Jrnl. Apr. 119/1 Not only was it the last of the old-fashioned stampedes in which dog teams and men vied for space along the narrow trail, but it also ushered in the air age of prospecting.1862 T. A. Trollope Lenten Journey i. 4 The great lines, trodden smooth by the annual stampedo of northern travellers.
b. (With initial capital.) An uproarious kind of dance. Also Stampede Dance (in quot. 1950, a dancing-party).
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society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > other dances > [noun]
dance of Macabre?c1430
springc1450
lege de moya1529
bobc1550
lusty gallant1569
duret1613
fading1613
huckler1617
ground-measure1621
entry1631
slatter de pouchc1640
ballo1651
Irish trot1651
omnium gatheruma1652
clutterdepouch1652
upspring1654
passacaglia1659
shuffle1659
passacaille1667
flip-flap1676
chaconne1685
charmer1702
Cheshire-round1706
Louvre1729
stick dance1730
white joke1730
baby dance1744
Nancy Dawson1766
fricassee1775
bumpkin1785
Totentanz1789
Flora('s) dance1790
goombay1790
egg-dance1801
supper dance1820
Congo dance1823
slip-jig1829
bran-dance1833
roly-poly1833
Congo1835
mazy1841
furry1848
bull-dance1855
stampede1856
double-shuffling1859
frog dance1863
hokee-pokee1873
plait dance1876
slow dancing1884
snake dance1895
beast dance1900
soft-shoe1900
cakewalk1902
floral dance1911
snake dance1911
apache dance1912
grizzly bear1912
jazz dance1917
jazz dancing1917
jazz1919
wine-dance1920
camel-walk1921
furry dance1928
snake-dance1931
pas d'action1936
trance dancing1956
touch dance1965
hokey-cokey1966
moonwalk1969
moonwalking1983
Crip Walk1989
mapantsula1990
society > leisure > dancing > ball or dance > [noun] > other balls or dances
carolc1300
buttock-ball1698
redoubt1698
ridotto1708
race ball1770
county ball1771
dress ball?1772
promenade1778
waltz1802
hunt ball1807
dignity ball1834
ball-royala1843
polkery1845
jigging-party1872
prom1879
Cinderella dance1883
dinner dance1887
white ball1891
cotillion1898
taxi dance1910
Stampede Dance1950
go-go1965
1856 Spirit of Times 13 Dec. 238/2 The following was the programme of dancing: Part the Fourth—Scotch Reel,..French Four, General Stampede.
1870 J. C. Duval Adventures Big-Foot Wallace xlii. 263 I see you haven't yet introduced the Texas national dance—the Stampede.
1950 Chicago Daily News 10 May 10/1 The annual ‘Stampede Dance’ of the Order of the Builders, State of Illinois, will be held May 20.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
stampedev.
/ˌstamˈpiːd/ 1.
a. transitive. To cause a stampede amongst (cattle); to cause a stampede of (a person's) cattle.
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the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > causing physical symptoms > cause physical symptoms [verb (transitive)] > frighten away > frighten away cattle
stampede1838
estampede1843
α.
β. 1838 Hesperian Nov. 37/2 When we awoke, we found that the flies had stompeded our horses, to use the expression of the country, which means that they made them so restive that they broke loose from the hopples.1844 J. Gregg Commerce of Prairies II. 35 A party of Mexicans..stampeded and carried away, not only their own horses, but those of the Texans.1847 G. F. Ruxton Adventures Mexico & Rocky Mts. xxii. 187 During the night our mulada, which was grazing at large in the prairie, was stampeded by the Indians.1896 Gen. H. Porter in Cent. Mag. Nov. 23 The mules, stampeded by the sound of battle raging about them, had broken loose..and run away.1897 Cavalry Tactics 139 Against cavalry in bivouacs..the party should be divided, some being told off to stampede the horses.1848 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 593 The Chases [i.e. a family named Chase]..were stampedoed upon the waters of the Platte.
b. transferred and figurative. To cause (a body of persons) to fly or rush away through fear or common impulse; in American politics, to induce (a political convention) to vote suddenly in a body (for a particular candidate). Cf. stampede n. 2. Hence, to cause (an individual) to take precipitate action.
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the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > causing physical symptoms > cause physical symptoms [verb (transitive)] > frighten away > cause people to rush away
stampede1868
the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > do, deal with, acquire, etc., quickly [verb (transitive)] > cause to be done rapidly > hasten or hurry > unduly or excessively > a person to some action or condition
hurrya1616
stampede1868
society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > [verb (transitive)] > adopt as candidate > cause convention to support candidate
stampede1868
1868 Visct. Strangford Select. from Writings (1869) I. 204 The aforesaid people are as likely as not to go by default and be stampeded into rebellion.
1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. lxx. 568 To stampede a convention is the steadily contemplated aim of every manager who knows he cannot win on the first ballot.
1889 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 7 Mar. 2/4 Efforts of the Bears to Stampede the New York Market.
1890 C. King Sunset Pass 56 Don't get stampeded. Just keep cool; watch and listen.
1898 Educ. Rev. 15 412 The crazes by which teachers are periodically stampeded.
1912 R. Pocock Man in Open 104 The lady attracted attention by screaming, so the third shot stampeded poor Jones.
1924 Machinists' Bull. (Winnipeg) Oct. 3/2 Efforts are being made by various agencies to use the present condition as a club to stampede the men and disgust them with their Organization.
1950 Time 3 Apr. 20/2 A solid, grey, calm man, never rushed to a conclusion, impossible to stampede.
2.
a. intransitive. Of a herd of cattle: To become panic-stricken and take to flight.
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the mind > emotion > fear > apprehension > be apprehensive [verb (intransitive)] > panic or lose one's head > rush off in panic (of cattle)
stampede1823
estampedo1843
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [verb (intransitive)] > stampede
stampede1823
rush1838
1823 S. M. Williams Deposition 18 Oct. in E. C. Barker Austin Papers (1924) I. i. 699 On the way..the Cavallada Stampeded and a part of the horses and mules were not recovered.
1859 R. B. Marcy Prairie Traveler xi. 69 My entire herd of about two hundred horses and mules all stampeded in the night.
1879 Daily News 1 Mar. If the Zulus attack they always try to make the cattle within the park stampede.
b. Of a company of persons: To rush with common impulse. Also spec. of a prospector: to rush to the goldfields.
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society > occupation and work > industry > mining > mine [verb (intransitive)] > prospect > types of prospecting for gold, opal, etc.
stampede1849
speck1888
snipe1909
the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move swiftly and violently > of people in a body
flusha1500
stampede1849
1849 in J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2 1859) s.v. The Virginia Legislature, becoming frightened at the approach of the cholera, have finally stampeded toward the White Sulphur Springs.
1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining viii. v. 263 Among the miners who had ‘stampeded’ to Cedar were many of the best prospectors in the Territory.
1884 A. Forbes Chinese Gordon xi. 108 The new regiment broke, stampeded into the other, and threw it into confusion.
1898 M. Landreville Appeal of Yukon Miners 23 Miners are prone to stampede to any district which has the appearance of greater richness than the one wherein they are at work.
1951 V. B. Angier At Home in Woods 41 The prospectors who stampeded through here around '98 on their way to the Yukon had a pretty good trick.
Derivatives
stamˈpeded adj.
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the mind > emotion > fear > apprehension > [adjective] > of or pert to panic(s) > rushing in a panic > that are frightened and put to flight
stampeded1885
1885 Suakin ix. 216 The enemy were still pursuing the stampeded camels.
stamˈpeding n. and adj.
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the mind > emotion > fear > apprehension > [adjective] > of or pert to panic(s) > rushing in a panic
stampeding1884
the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > causing physical symptoms > [noun] > causing of a body of persons to rush away
stampeding1884
society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > [noun] > selection of candidates > meeting to nominate candidate > rush of support for candidate at > causing
stampeding1884
1884 Stanwood Hist. Presid. Elections xxiv. 315 Another rule [of the Republican convention of 1876] put an end to the practice of ‘stampeding’.
1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Nov. 4/2 He was nearly forced over a precipice by a stampeding herd of wild horses.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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