Improve your vocabulary with these modern collective nouns

Poke Staff. Updated March 30th, 2016

Today the internet has been helping our vocabularies, when the hashtag #ModernCollectiveNouns started trending. Here are some updated ways to describe groups of things.
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A bucket of burrowing owls? #ModernCollectiveNouns
Story: https://t.co/ZcBrBBoCgq pic.twitter.com/vai8umLN1m

— U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (@USFWS) March 30, 2016

A vineyard of six second clips. #ModernCollectiveNouns

— Johnsense. (@Johnsense38) March 30, 2016

An Irony of Hipsters#ModernCollectiveNouns

— 𖤐 @indistarr.bsky.social 𖤐 (@indistarr) March 30, 2016

#ModernCollectiveNouns A drain of iPhone batteries

— Oonagh (@Okeating) March 30, 2016

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A distraction of smartphones #ModernCollectiveNouns

— Lily Bailey (@LilyBaileyUK) March 30, 2016

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Can of can't even #ModernCollectiveNouns

— Joe Blow (@josephblosef) March 30, 2016

#ModernCollectiveNouns
An Expense of lawyers

— Matt Finish (@Roddy_MacEw) March 30, 2016

A clutch of purses#ModernCollectiveNouns pic.twitter.com/81laGaNI7k

— Hayley Smith 👩🏻‍🎨 (@HayleyS190277) March 30, 2016

A Boaty of McBoatfaces #ModernCollectiveNouns

— Jay Tuvz (@JayTuvz) March 30, 2016

The collective noun for hermits is a "failure".

— simon evans (@TheSimonEvans) July 23, 2011

An Embarrassment of Ritchies#ModernCollectiveNouns

(Also a new reality show starring all of Lionel Ritchie's children)

— Sanjeev Kohli (@govindajeggy) March 30, 2016

A reply of trolls. #ModernCollectiveNouns

— Ian Power (@IHPower) March 30, 2016

A foothurt of Lego#ModernCollectiveNouns

— 𖤐 @indistarr.bsky.social 𖤐 (@indistarr) March 30, 2016