Definitions for scrum

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Spelling: [skruhm]

IPA: /skrʌm/

Scrum is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 58 anagrams from letters in scrum (cmrsu).

Definitions for scrum

noun

1. a Rugby play in which, typically, three members of each team line up opposite one another with a group of two and a group of three players behind them, making an eight-person, three-two-three formation on each side; the ball is then rolled between the opposing front lines, the players of which stand with arms around a teammate's waist, meeting the opponent shoulder to shoulder, and attempt to kick the ball backward to a teammate.
2. British. a place or situation of confusion and racket; hubbub.

verb (used without object)

1. to engage in a scrum.

Origin of scrum

First recorded in 1885-90; short for scrummage

Examples for scrum

As the game ended, tension between the two sides boiled over into a scrum of stick swinging, pushing, and punching.

Three or four of us huddled around him, almost a scrum, hanging on his every word.

I suppose I can count for one in the scrum, said the stranger.

Anyone who does not want to talk to reporters knows to skip a walk through the scrum.

In the scrum of reporters backstage after the show, someone asked Mulleavy whether the collection had a “Vegas connection.”

Another result was a line of TV news trucks and a scrum of photographers outside the funeral as the church filled to overflowing.

She's a little creature who went down in the scrum and has been kicked about ever since.

“They were so jolly heavy in the scrum,” said Maurice, one of the forwards.

The scrum had formed by now, and further conversation was impossible.

The referee blew his whistle for a scrum, and a certain try was lost.