Definitions for flocks

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Spelling: [flok]

IPA: /flɒk/

Flocks is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 68 anagrams from letters in flocks (cfklos).

Definitions for flocks

noun

1. a number of animals of one kind, especially sheep, goats, or birds, that keep or feed together or are herded together.
2. a large number of people; crowd.
3. a large group of things:
4. the Christian church in relation to Christ. a single congregation in relation to its pastor.
5. Archaic. a band or company of persons.
6. a lock or tuft of wool, hair, cotton, etc.
7. (sometimes used with a plural verb) wool refuse, shearings of cloth, old cloth torn to pieces, or the like, for upholstering furniture, stuffing mattresses, etc.
8. Also called flocking. (sometimes used with a plural verb) finely powdered wool, cloth, etc., used for producing a velvetlike pattern on wallpaper or cloth or for coating metal.
9. floc (def 1).

verb (used with object)

1. to stuff with flock, as a mattress.
2. to decorate or coat with flock, as wallpaper, cloth, or metal.

verb (used without object)

1. to gather or go in a flock or crowd:

Origin of flocks

before 1000; (noun) Middle English; Old English floc; cognate with Old Norse flokkr; (v.) Middle English, derivative of the noun

Examples for flocks

They had stumbled in the dark on the bedding-place of a flock of Bighorn.

They take you to this big window and you look down at all these people in suits and ties and say, “This is your flock.”

Fans of the series will flock to see ‘Mockingjay’ this Thanksgiving weekend.

Behind him stood a flock of fifth-grade boys—and two second-grade girls—all of them wearing the exact same yellow hat.

He is to be admired for his kindness and genuine pastoral concern for all the members of his flock.

Tavi already has a flock of online fans as a popular fashion blogger and editor of the online magazine Rookie.

They could feel the flock huddling back, and the warmth of the packed fleeces.

Yet it had sufficed that the nations should flock there for a pestilence to break out.

There's a world of difference catering for a Set, and a flock.

Hester knew nothing of the state of either, nor had they ever belonged to her flock.