Definitions for scrums

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Spelling: [skruhm]

IPA: /skrʌm/

Scrums is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in scrums (cmrssu).

Definitions for scrums

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 scrums

First recorded in 1885-90; short for scrummage

Examples for scrums

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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