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Stampede

A sudden panic in a herd of buffaloes, causing them to rush away pell-mell. The panic-flight of the Federals at Bull Run, near the Potomac, U.S., in 1861, was a stampede.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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