Definition of "stampedes" []

• Plural form of stampede. (noun)

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• "Although crowd disasters in which people die are often described as stampedes and panics."
• "Still, the stampedes are a fun and fast-paced way to put your reflexes to the test."
• "Eventually he and Brown fell out over alleged arrears of pay and, perhaps more seriously, the Harper's Ferry project: Forbes was convinced that an attempt to rouse the slaves for a guerrilla campaign must fail, and pro-posed instead a series of "stampedes" in which small parties of slaves would be run off from properties close to the North-South border, thus eventually making slave-holding impossible in the region, and forcing the "slave frontier" gradually southwards."