Definitions for scrimmages

scrimmages scrim·mage

Spelling: [skrim-ij]
IPA: /ˈskrɪm ɪdʒ/

Scrimmages is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 622 anagrams from letters in scrimmages (acegimmrss).

Definitions for scrimmages

noun

  1. a rough or vigorous struggle.
  2. Football. the action that takes place between the teams from the moment the ball is snapped until it is declared dead. Compare line of scrimmage. a practice session or informal game, as that played between two units of the same team.

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to engage in a scrimmage.

Origin of scrimmages

1425-75; late Middle English, variant of scrimish, metathetic form of skirmish

Examples for scrimmages

It was the first scrimmage for the third squad fellows and they raced on eagerly.

How will it go with young O'Shea about this scrimmage, will it be serious?'

I must have dropped it, sir, in the scrimmage—it was awful 'ot, sir!

They had been in a scrimmage with the Chippewas and had their wounded with them and many gory scalps, too.

After the scrimmage, Bustin said Lloyd was “in good spirits and everything seemed to be fine … A lot of the guys go out,” he said.

One of them, Troy Jones, a 19-year-old aspiring photojournalist, remembered Brown from the scrimmage line.

The real line of scrimmage in American politics is the economy.

Outnumbered twenty to one, they began to go down in the scrimmage.

He was ashamed 172 because he had shown the white feather in the scrimmage.

“He was mentoring a younger guy in the scrimmage about technique you should use,” he said.

Word Value for scrimmages
Scrable

0

Words with friends

20

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