bunch

Noun

• any collection in its entirety
  • she bought the whole caboodle
    

• an informal body of friends
  • he still hangs out with the same crowd
    

• a grouping of a number of similar things
  • a bunch of trees
    
  • a cluster of admirers
    

Verb

• gather or cause to gather into a cluster
  • She bunched her fingers into a fist
    

• form into a bunch
  • The frightened children bunched together in the corner of the classroom
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  lot , caboodle , crowd , crew , gang , clump , cluster , clustering , bunch up , bundle , bunch together