0 past simple and past participle of flock
1 to move or come together in large numbers:
[ + to infinitive ] Crowds of people flocked to see the Picasso exhibition.
2 to cover a surface with a soft material in order to decorate it:
But hopes of a continuation of the season were already melting away as players flocked to the colours.
Students flocked to the option of a master's degree in archaeology.
Many hundreds of humbler souls also flocked there in search of his curative powers.
The war economy produced sudden and strong demands for labour and many people flocked to some of the big cities.
This was a production which suffragists flocked to, seeing their own persecution played out triumphantly on stage.
The interior of a stream could be flocked, and a flock could be part of a streamed texture.
Many flocked to see and experience the building.
The deserters flocked to enlist not out of a desire to leave the war, but from fear of being made to abandon their country.
