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Grown adults forming a human group hug just to whisper a plan the other team already knows.
means To crowd close together with others, usually for warmth, secrecy, or protection.
from Huddle shows up in English in the 1500s, likely related to Low German or Dutch words for covering and hiding (like 'huddeln,' meaning to wrap up). The core image is bodies pressed together as if wrapped in one cloak — which is exactly why sports teams, conspirators, and cold penguins all end up doing it.
- origin
- deaf football player invented it to hide signals, 1890s
- etymology
- from hodderen, dutch for to huddle together
- irony
- designed for secrecy, now broadcast to millions
- corporate version
- same circle, less strategy, more buzzwords