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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'flashcrowd' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions flashcrowd noun , also flash crowd The sudden increase in popularity of an Internet site or resource due to an event or link from another site. 1971, Larry Niven, Flash Crowd :The mall riot was the first successful riot in twenty years. "The police can get to a riot before it's a riot," said McCord?. "We call them flash crowds, and we watch for them." 2004 December 18, Johan Pouwelse, "The BitTorrent? P2P? file-sharing system", The Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/18/bittorrent_measurements_analysis/. :We now focus on the system's reaction to the sudden popularity of a single (new) file. This phenomenon is also called the effect.        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.allwords.com Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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