Crossword clues for scrabble
scrabble
- Board game with tiles
- Desperately try to get hold of game
- It's typically played indoors
- Popular word game
- Word-forming game
- Classic word game
- Word-forming board game with two blank tiles
- Word game with lettered tiles
- Word freaks play it with tiles and racks
- Where an F is worth more than an A
- Where 'TWELVE' is worth 12
- Long-popular board game
- Its original name was Criss Cross Words
- Game with racks/blanks
- Game originally named Criss-Crosswords
- Game in which I is 1
- Game described by this puzzle's four racks
- Crossword game
- Claw at
- Activity that might cause you to draw a blank
- Claw (at)
- Torture over a rack?
- Kind of tile
- Tiles are laid in it
- Game with tiles
- Subject of Stefan Fatsis' book "Word Freak"
- Where you might get a word in edgewise
- The record score in this game is 1,049 points
- Game with its own dictionary
- Focus of over 4,000 clubs around the world
- See circled letters
- (trademark) a game in which words are formed from letters in patterns similar to a crossword puzzle
- Grope gamely?
- Popular board game
- Board game with Triple Word Score squares
- Grub that is given to hoi polloi
- Special constable, tailed by mob, in scrape
- Scratch or grope around
- Scratch from game
- Root around
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scrabble \Scrab"ble\ (skr[a^]b"b'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Scrabbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Scrabbling.] [Freq. of scrape. Cf. Scramble, Scrawl, v. t.]
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To scrape, paw, or scratch with the hands; to proceed by clawing with the hands and feet; to scramble; as, to scrabble up a cliff or a tree.
Now after a while Little-faith came to himself, and getting up made shift to scrabble on his way.
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To make irregular, crooked, or unmeaning marks; to scribble; to scrawl.
David . . . scrabbled on the doors of the gate.
--1. Sam. xxi. 1
Scrabble \Scrab"ble\, n. The act of scrabbling; a moving upon the hands and knees; a scramble; also, a scribble.
Scrabble \Scrab"ble\, v. t. To mark with irregular lines or letters; to scribble; as, to scrabble paper.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
board game, 1949, proprietary name (registered U.S.), probably from scribble-scrabble "hasty writing" (1580s), a reduplication of scribble (n.).
1530s, "to scrawl, scribble," from Dutch schrabbelen, frequentative of schrabben "to scratch," from the same root as scrape (v.). Meaning "to struggle, scramble" first recorded 1630s. Related: Scrabbled; scrabbling.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To scrape or scratch powerfully with hands or claws. 2 (context intransitive English) To move something about by making rapid movements back and forth with the hands or paws. 3 To scribble. 4 To mark with irregular lines or letters; to scribble on.
WordNet
a board game in which words are formed from letters in patterns similar to a crossword puzzle; each letter has a value and those values are used to score the game
v. feel searchingly; "She groped for his keys in the dark" [syn: grope for]
write down quickly without much attention to detail [syn: scribble]
Wikipedia
Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles, each bearing a single letter, onto a gameboard which is divided into a 15×15 grid of squares. The tiles must form words which, in crossword fashion, flow left to right in rows or downwards in columns. The words must be defined in a standard dictionary, or present in specified reference works (e.g., the Official Tournament and Club Word List, the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary), which provide a list of officially permissible words.
The name Scrabble is a trademark of Hasbro, Inc. in the United States and Canada and has been sold by Hasbro's Parker Brothers division since 1999. Prior to 1999, it was sold as a Milton Bradley game. Outside the United States and Canada, Scrabble is a trademark of Mattel. The game is sold in 121 countries and is available in 29 languages; approximately 150 million sets have been sold worldwide and roughly one-third of American and half of British homes have a Scrabble set. There are around 4,000 Scrabble clubs around the world.
Scrabble is an American television game show that was based on the Scrabble board game. The show was co-produced by Exposure Unlimited and Reg Grundy Productions. It ran from July 2, 1984 to March 23, 1990, and again from January 18 to June 11, 1993, both runs on NBC. A total of 1,335 episodes were produced from both editions; Chuck Woolery hosted both versions of the series. Jay Stewart was the announcer for the first year and was replaced by Charlie Tuna in the summer of 1985, who announced for the remainder of the original version and the entirety of the 1993 revival.
Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a game board.
:* The Computer Edition of Scrabble, a video game
:* Scrabble 2007 Edition, a Nintendo DS video game of the board game Scrabble
Scrabble may also refer to:
- Scrabble, West Virginia, United States
- Scrabble (game show), an American television game show
- Marc Rzepczynski, an American baseball player
Usage examples of "scrabble".
Atari Ado, cooked in half by a Sunjet blast, scrabbling with the last of her strength to get a sidearm to her throat and pull the trigger.
Instead, he must use the small capability given him to work his way upward, scrabble, get a purchase on matter that was not yet aflow, burrow to the stars.
Jigsaws, cards, roulette counters, poker chips, spillikins, marbles, yarrow stalks, dice, jacks, Trivial Pursuit wedges, bridge score-sheets, discarded Pictionary doodles, Scrabble tiles, bits of unidentifiable plastic and shards of bakelite, wood and metal formed a jumbled compost capable of engaging a dedicated housekeeper for several months of full-time sifting, cataloguing and sorting into the correct boxes.
Davey went to work next morning with a spade, tossing gravel against a sloping screen, while Buglet knelt in the dust to scrabble for artifacts.
Certain nights of the week, we play honeymoon bridge or canasta or Scrabble.
I pulled a branch under the cowhide and scrabbled my fingers through the pebbles at my feet.
Now he saw that where his scrabbling feet had kicked away the adhering granules and accumulated cupric silicates, something black and shiny lay underneath.
Estelle scrabbled around the edge of the dumpster, and after a sniff, Ruby Bee followed her, even though certain parts of her anatomy were sure to be black and blue before morning.
She knell heavily, feeling the cool dampness seep through her skirts to chill her knees, and scooped up a little earth in her hands, scrabbling at it, ending up with a handful of earthworms and wild violet roots for her pains.
Daeman crawled closer, fingers and feet scrabbling on skulls, and looked at the tall heap of eggs from as close as he could get without lifting his head above the level of the fumarole crater rim.
Then, when Gio scrabbled for a handhold, his fingers clawed against the pedestal and tipped it slightly.
When I regained my balance, my hands scrabbling along the walls, all that was left of my dark guildsman was a twirl of engine ice and London rubbish.
Scrabbling in the grass with his second hand, Gumbs had failed to find anything that would serve as a weapon.
The screaming and cursing continued fitfully, but their morale seemed to be broken, and Hayward watched with relief as the mob scrabbled back in disorder.
Nina could see Hitchcock inside the house, scrabbling at the window and barking a greeting.