Crossword clues for scrimmage
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scrimmage \Scrim"mage\ (?; 48), n. [A corruption of skirmish. ``Sore scrymmishe.'' --Ld. Berners.] [Written also scrummage.]
Formerly, a skirmish; now, a general row or confused fight or struggle.
(Football) The struggle in the rush lines after the ball is put in play.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sometimes also scrummage, late 15c., alteration of skirmish (n.). Meaning in rugby and U.S. football dates from 1857, originally "a confused struggle between players."
1825, "quarrel, argue," from scrimmage (n.). Team sports sense is from 1881. Related: Scrimmaged; scrimmaging.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A rough fight. 2 (label en United States) In some team sports, especially soccer, a practice game which does not count on a team's record. 3 In American football or Canadian football, a play that begins with a snap from the center while opposing teams are on either side of a line of scrimmage. vb. To have, or be involved in, a scrimmage.
WordNet
n. (American football) practice play between a football team's squads
a noisy riotous fight [syn: melee, battle royal]
v. practice playing (a sport)
Wikipedia
Scrimmage (alteration of skirmish) may refer to:
- An exhibition game, an informal sports contest or practice match which does not go on the regular season record
- Line of scrimmage, in American football and related games
- Scrimmage vest, clothing used in practices as a substitute for a sports uniform
- USS Scrimmage (AM-297), a U.S. Navy minesweeper built during World War II
- Scholastic Scrimmage, a high school quiz bowl game show televised in Pennsylvania, US
Usage examples of "scrimmage".
Tradition has it that his career as a maltster was cut short by his knocking his master down in a scrimmage.
Miss Overmore hereupon immediately took her from him, and they had a merry little scrimmage over her of which Maisie caught the surprised perception in the white stare of an old lady who passed in a victoria.
No offensive player could pass in front of or behind the ballcarrier while the ballcarrier was still behind the line of scrimmage.
In a full-contact scrimmage before the Bishop England game, Jordan once nearly tore my head off when I went out to receive a swing pass from Capers Middleton.
Over the ball in a wriggling, writhing heap twenty men were lying, and over these another thirty were striving, while behind them were the outguards, arriving from every part of the field, and, if they could not reach the central scrimmage, wrestling and boxing on their own.
Scrimmage, once again wearing her sweater, jeans, and hiking boots, stood with the Sturgeons, proudly watching as the star mingled politely with her students, shaking hands and signing autograph books.
Orin is twelve yards back from scrimmage, his cleated feet together, his weight just ahead of himself, his mismatched arms out before him in the attitude of the blind before walls.
But all he saw was the flash of white socks and Willie Jeeter scurrying around the right side of the line was dumped precisely two yards behind the line of scrimmage.
They won't be expecting Gardiner again, Kohler, the quarterback, said, and Scott ran back to the line of scrimmage.
I felt as if Sampson and I were on the other team, looking over the line of scrimmage, waiting for the ball snap, the crunch of bodies.
The Hillmen and their coach went bananas protesting that the ball had been dead at the line of scrimmage, but the officials disagreed and we led 6-0.
But the android pr-ceeded without imagination and was downed at the line of scrimmage.
Getting out of the train in the teeth of the people who wanted in was like facing the Jets' line of scrimmage.
In the scrimmage I made a fool of myself as usual, and slugged the wrong man with a monkey wrench.
The Nose Tackle, for instance, was an enormous nose - a huge wedge of boneless flesh that was hammered into the scrimmage line at every play.