crouch around

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crouch around

To move around while squatting. A: "Why are you crouching around your office?" B: "Ugh, I lost an earring."

crouch around

[for people or other creatures] to stoop or squat within an area. Everyone crouched around, hoping the bomb would fall somewhere else. The baboons i crouched around, grooming one another.

See also: around, crouch

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"I then saw people running to the east of the restaurant and I saw a couple of people, about 30 yards down the road, crouching around what looked like someone on the ground and they were calling for assistance.

Barcelona witnesses describe panic and carnage as a 'tidal wave of people ran in unbridled fear'

"I then saw people running to the east of the restaurant and I saw a couple of people about 30 yards down the road crouching around what looked like someone on the ground and they were calling for assistance.

He mowed them down like corn; EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNTS Brits on holiday in Barcelona tell how they fled as terrorist drove van through crowds at 50mph

The draw for each round took place on a Monday lunchtime and I can vividly remember a group of us crouching around a teacher's car radio to listen to the live radio coverage of the balls being drawn out of the bag.

The FA Cup romance will not be rekindled

Villagers are seen crouching around the object, floating innocently in a water-filled bucket.