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working the crowd

working the crowd is the present participle of work the crowd.

Meaning of work the crowd

Verb

work the crowd (third-person singular simple present works the crowd, present participle working the crowd, simple past and past participle worked the crowd)

  1. (idiomatic) To work the room, or to do the equivalent with an outdoor audience.

Questions about working the crowd

What is working the crowd the present participle of?
Working the crowd is the present participle of work the crowd.

Words near working the crowd in the dictionary

  1. working stiffs
  2. working terrier
  3. working terriers
  4. working the audience
  5. working the bar
  6. working the crowd
  7. working the hole
  8. working the hyphens
  9. working the line
  10. working the oracle
  11. working the refs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: working the crowd (page history and authors); work the crowd (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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