Definition of "passel"

That child will like as not come here with a passel o' things borrowed from the rest o' the family. She'll have Hannah's shoes and John's undershirts and Mark's socks most likely.

1903, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

A fist-pumping, howling passel of Bush administration officials.

2022, Marisol Cortez, “Ambivalent Anality: Revisiting the Queer Ecology of "the Jackass Moment"”, in Media+Environment