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underpants

(197,210 posts)
Sat Feb 8, 2020, 11:59 AM Feb 2020

What is the collective name for a group of clowns

I'm getting differing answers from my research on the inter webs.


3 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Unlimited
Shudder of clowns
0 (0%)
Pratfall of clowns
0 (0%)
Clown alley (I've also read that is the area where they get ready at a circus)
1 (33%)
Mutiny of Clowns (also a musical group by that name)
0 (0%)
Other answers?
2 (67%)
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What is the collective name for a group of clowns (Original Post) underpants Feb 2020 OP
Collective nouns missing from list above vrguy Feb 2020 #1
The Republican Party. The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2020 #2
Touche! smirkymonkey Feb 2020 #5
HAHAH...winner! Zoonart Feb 2020 #6
+ 100 MadLinguist Feb 2020 #9
Correctamundo! Just_Vote_Dem Feb 2020 #14
That's the one I was going to suggest. Dem2theMax Feb 2020 #17
That was my first thought as well. n/t ChazII Feb 2020 #21
GOP TheCowsCameHome Feb 2020 #3
The musicman65 Feb 2020 #4
A murder of Shmos Zoonart Feb 2020 #7
Well done underpants Feb 2020 #10
High praise from the master Zoonart Feb 2020 #11
👍 underpants Feb 2020 #12
I like it! Walleye Feb 2020 #23
Dying ovah heah! Dying! Squinch Feb 2020 #26
a chuckle of clowns MadLinguist Feb 2020 #8
Trump Family Fla Dem Feb 2020 #13
These clowns? FakeNoose Feb 2020 #22
Perhaps troupe might apply here, as in.... KY_EnviroGuy Feb 2020 #15
Now I understand the clown car thing. They don't even HAVE a transportation department underpants Feb 2020 #16
Well, transporting clowns would be like herding cats! KY_EnviroGuy Feb 2020 #18
More people love you than love me. I don't understand. trof Feb 2020 #24
A riot of clowns. nt Codeine Feb 2020 #19
A buffoonery of clowns Donkees Feb 2020 #20
Trump Administration jmowreader Feb 2020 #25
A clump? Faux pas Feb 2020 #27
The Senate mainstreetonce Feb 2020 #28
A clown car? forgotmylogin Feb 2020 #29
A Senate of Clowns Wolf Frankula Feb 2020 #30
An Oh Hell No! of Clowns happybird Feb 2020 #31
According to the internet, DeminPennswoods Feb 2020 #32
A trumple Blue Owl Feb 2020 #33

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,796 posts)
15. Perhaps troupe might apply here, as in....
Sat Feb 8, 2020, 03:50 PM
Feb 2020

Comedy troupe or circus troupe, a common phrase in entertainment......

Also, apparently a large organized group of clowns is called an "alley", as in....

Link: https://worldclown.com/alley/

(WORLD CLOWN ASSOCIATION)

Note the far left column in this chart...


KY...........

underpants

(197,210 posts)
16. Now I understand the clown car thing. They don't even HAVE a transportation department
Sat Feb 8, 2020, 04:31 PM
Feb 2020

Thanks. Very cool.

Ambassador of Clowns.

trof

(54,274 posts)
24. More people love you than love me. I don't understand.
Sat Feb 8, 2020, 08:36 PM
Feb 2020

I'm almost as cute as you are.
At least in a bar late at night.
I don't get it.

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