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scrummage

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scrum·mage  (skrmj) Sports
n.
A scrum.
intr.v. scrum·maged, scrum·mag·ing, scrum·mag·es
To engage in a scrum.
[Alteration of scrimmage.]
scrummag·er n.
scrummage [ˈskrʌmɪdʒ]
n & vb
1. (Team Sports / Rugby) Rugby another word for scrum
2. a variant of scrimmage
[variant of scrimmage]
scrummager  n
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Noun1.scrummagescrummage - (rugby) the method of beginning play in which the forwards of each team crouch side by side with locked arms; play starts when the ball is thrown in between them and the two sides compete for possession
scrum
commencement, start, beginning - the act of starting something; "he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations"
rugby, rugby football, rugger - a form of football played with an oval ball
Translations
scrummage [ˈskrʌmɪdʒ] n (RUGBY) → mêlée f
scrummage
n → offenes Gedränge


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" This is what we call "a scrummage," gentlemen, and the first scrummage in a School-house match was no joke in the consulship of Plancus.
Tom Brown's Schooldays by Hughes, Thomas View in context
And there were days that packed into the space of a few hours the concentrated essence of a music-hall knock-about sketch, an earthquake, a football scrummage, and the rush-hour on the Tube; when the office was full of shouting men, when strange figures dived in and out and banged doors like characters in an old farce, and Harold, the proud office-boy, lost his air of being on the point of lunching with a duke at the club and perspired like one of the proletariat.
The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville View in context
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