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: --
Madly his distressed co-religionists flocked to the gates, and in the rush escaped with their lives only.
When people who flocked to the company had worked there for four weeks the wages immediately dropped to £120 a week.
Rescue teams flocked to the disaster areas from every province.
A lot of people flocked to the railway station to get away.
The agricultural labourer has flocked to the standard in shoals.
Tenants have flocked to join the tenants associations and have rallied behind those associations.
It has become a truism of the 'industrial revolution' that workers flocked from the countryside to the towns and cities, from rural occupations to urban industry.
The deserters flocked to enlist not out of a desire to leave the war, but from fear of being made to abandon their country.
