scrummage
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of scrummage
Perhaps originally a dialectal variant of scrimmage
Example Sentences
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After the speech, I’ll be throwing myself into the scrummage of senior party figures trying to grab as many interviews as I can.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2024
"We had a scrummage session where the scrum machine was pegged it into the ground, so it wouldn't move," he says.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2022
In a less violent, but all the more ridiculous scrummage, two women at an undisclosed Walmart were caught on video getting into a tussling match over a Shark vacuum cleaner.
From Fox News ● Nov. 30, 2019
“If you don’t like to scrummage you’re in the wrong position,” he told the front rows of Munster and Toulouse.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 11, 2019
The American players, on the contrary, favored a campaign of personal assault for which the general rules of the English scrummage lent marked facilities.
From An American at Oxford by Corbin, John
Scored tries in the first and second Test, scrummaged well, carried with the pace and dexterity of a top-class centre but with the power of a beast.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2025
The dynamic prop has tirelessly scrummaged, tackled and carried with real intensity.
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2023
Strange as it may sound, I'll probably have to do a bit of homework before Saturday because I have only ever scrummaged against Paul once, and that was when we were 15.
From BBC ● May 31, 2013
We stopped their driving maul pretty well and drove them back a few times, we scrummaged well, we got a bit of pressure on their lineout early on, and the back row tackled themselves to a standstill.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 27, 2011
I think we scrummaged well and also the players on the bench like Alasdair Dickinson and Scott Lawson did well when they came on.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 20, 2010
From scrummaging to tackling, to sprinting with the ball, this can be a high intensity workout that will boost both your fitness and your strength.
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2024
"The boys speak highly of Lloyd's scrummaging and hopefully he's learned from that game."
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2023
Drill sessions include running, passing, and scrummaging, and for energy the girls chew sugarcane.
From Reuters ● May 30, 2023
"With Springbok front-rowers, their scrummaging and their passion for it, it is very much fight or flight and I run towards the fight side of it," he said.
From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2021
When afternoon school was over, he had to turn out and practise scrummaging with the first fifteen, in view of an important school match which was coming off on the following Saturday.
From The Head of Kay's by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
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