Today's slang word of the day is flash mob. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.
noun
- a spontaneous public gathering of people organized via the internet.
The messages come by e-mail or cellphone, with instructions to meet at a specific place and time. Once there, participants in flash mobs, the compulsively deconstructed geek-chic game of the summer, briefly perform some collective activity, then flee.
-- "Ideas & Trends: Flash Mobs; Guess Some People Don't Have Anything Better to Do", The New York Times, Amy Harmon, August 17 2003
origin
- The term "flash crowd" was introduced by author Larry Niven in his novella Flash Crowd.
-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)
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