scrum
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Etymology
Either a back-formation from or an apocopic form of scrummage, a variant of scrimmage.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skɹʌm/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ʌm
Noun
scrum (plural scrums)
- A tightly-packed and disorderly crowd of people.
- A scrum developed around the bar when free beer was announced.
- (Canada) A tightly packed group of reporters surrounding a person, usually a politician, asking for comments about an issue; an opportunity provided for a politician to be approached this way.
- A scrum formed around Scott Brison in the House of Commons lobby shortly after he announced his candidacy for the federal Liberal leadership.
- (rugby) In rugby union or rugby league, all the forwards joined together in an organised way.
- (software engineering) In Agile software development (specifically Scrum or related methodologies), a daily meeting in which each developer describes what they have been doing, what they plan to do next, and any impediments to progress.
- Hostile shoving between two groups.
- 2021 May 11, Patrick Kingsley, Isabel Kershner, “After Raid on Aqsa Mosque, Rockets From Gaza and Israeli Airstrikes”, in New York Times:
- [A] group of far-right lawmakers tried to mark Jerusalem Day by forcing their way into the street inhabited by the Palestinians listed for eviction. A group of leftist and Arab lawmakers blocked their path, setting off a brief scrum, before at least one far-right lawmaker ... broke through the Arabs' lines."
Derived terms
Descendants
- French: scrum
Translations
a tightly packed and disorderly crowd of people
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(Canada) a tightly packed group of reporters surrounding a spokesperson
(rugby) all the forwards joined together in an organised way
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See also
Further reading
scrum (rugby) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
scrum (third-person singular simple present scrums, present participle scrumming, simple past and past participle scrummed)
- (rugby, intransitive) To form a scrum.
Derived terms
Proper noun
scrum
- (software engineering) Alternative letter-case form of Scrum
Anagrams
Etymology
Noun
scrum n (plural scrumuri)
Derived terms
- ascrum
- nscrum
- scrumedz
Etymology
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
scrum m (plural scrums)
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