cattle up

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English

Verb

cattle up (third-person singular simple present cattles up, present participle cattling up, simple past and past participle cattled up)

  1. (transitive, figurative, rare) To gather (a group of people) together into a small space.
    Synonym: crowd together
    • 1997 December 23, Re: Cozumel Scuba Du, “William Seiffert, M.D.”, in rec.scuba.locations (Usenet):
      I think Scuba Du is the best operation we have dove with in Cozumel, others have been Dive Paradise and Scuba Cozumel at the Galapago. We were there in low season and had 4-6 divers per boat. I suspect they could have "cattled" us up in one or two boats but they put the whole fleet out.
    • 1998, Leslie Feinberg, “In the Spirit of Stonewall” (chapter 6), in Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue, Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, →ISBN, page 107:
      We were led out of the bar and they cattled us all up against the police vans. The cops pushed us up against the grates and the fences. People started throwing pennies, nickels, and quarters at the cops, and then the bottles started.