"flocks" in the noun sense
1. flock
a church congregation guided by a pastor
2. flock
a group of birds
3. batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad
often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
"a batch of letters"
"a deal of trouble"
"a lot of money"
"he made a mint on the stock market"
"see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"
"it must have cost plenty"
"a slew of journalists"
"a wad of money"
4. troop, flock
an orderly crowd
"a troop of children"
5. flock, fold
a group of sheep or goats
"flocks" in the verb sense
1. flock
move as a crowd or in a group
"Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears"
2. cluster, constellate, flock, clump
come together as in a cluster or flock
"The poets constellate in this town every summer"
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