"put the herd on someone" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "puts the herd on someone",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "putting the herd on someone",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put the herd on someone",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put the herd on someone",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "put<,,put> the herd on someone"
      },
      "expansion": "put the herd on someone (third-person singular simple present puts the herd on someone, present participle putting the herd on someone, simple past and past participle put the herd on someone)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1972, Report of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama and Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama, volume 49",
          "text": "Testimony by prosecution witness that defendant returned to automobile from ditch without victim and in substance said victim was dead and that \"We've killed him. I ain't joking the son of a bitch is dead. We put the herd on him\" was properly admitted as part of res gestae […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "2001, The Outer Limits (TV series), \"Patient Zero\" (season 7 episode 2), at approx. 12 minutes\n- What happened, Amy?\n- That guy just dumped his coffee all over me. I was gonna go to the movies but now I guess I have to go home to change.\n- Sure you don't want us to go put the herd on him?"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To attack a person as a group or gang."
      ],
      "id": "en-put_the_herd_on_someone-en-verb-EOdSTLVL",
      "links": [
        [
          "attack",
          "attack"
        ],
        [
          "group",
          "group"
        ],
        [
          "gang",
          "gang"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, transitive) To attack a person as a group or gang."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "put the herd on someone"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "puts the herd on someone",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "putting the herd on someone",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put the herd on someone",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put the herd on someone",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "put<,,put> the herd on someone"
      },
      "expansion": "put the herd on someone (third-person singular simple present puts the herd on someone, present participle putting the herd on someone, simple past and past participle put the herd on someone)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1972, Report of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama and Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama, volume 49",
          "text": "Testimony by prosecution witness that defendant returned to automobile from ditch without victim and in substance said victim was dead and that \"We've killed him. I ain't joking the son of a bitch is dead. We put the herd on him\" was properly admitted as part of res gestae […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "2001, The Outer Limits (TV series), \"Patient Zero\" (season 7 episode 2), at approx. 12 minutes\n- What happened, Amy?\n- That guy just dumped his coffee all over me. I was gonna go to the movies but now I guess I have to go home to change.\n- Sure you don't want us to go put the herd on him?"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To attack a person as a group or gang."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "attack",
          "attack"
        ],
        [
          "group",
          "group"
        ],
        [
          "gang",
          "gang"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, transitive) To attack a person as a group or gang."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "put the herd on someone"
}