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scrimmage

/ˈskɹɪmɪd͡ʒ/US/ˈskɹɪməd͡ʒ/

scrimmage noun: a rough fight.

Noun

scrimmage (plural scrimmages)

  1. A rough fight.
    • get caught up in a scrimmage
    • There was an instant of complete silence, but when Tough Bill threw himself on Strickland the lust of battle seized them all, and in a moment there was a confused scrimmage. Tables were overturned, glasses crashed to the ground.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 47”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC
  2. (US) In some team sports, especially soccer, a practice game which does not count on a team's record.
    • Merchandise sales surged. The spring scrimmage, usually a yawn of an afterthought at Colorado, was packed.2024 October 4, John Branch, “What Does College Football Have to Do With College?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC
  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.

Verb

scrimmage (third-person singular simple present scrimmages, present participle scrimmaging, simple past and past participle scrimmaged)

  1. To have, or be involved in, a scrimmage.
    • We scrimmaged a few times and then settled into boring drills.
    • Elwood caught sight of a football field where some boys scrimmaged and yelped.2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 45

scrimmage meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Odia

scrimmage in Tamil

ஸ்கிரிம்மிங்

scrimmage in Malayalam

brawl, fight, tussle
സംഘട്ടനം, ഉന്തുംതള്ളും, പോര്, കയ്യാങ്കളി, കശപിശ, കശുപിശ

scrimmage in Kannada

ಗುದ್ದಾಟ, ಕಾದಾಟ, ದೊಂಬಿ, ಜಗಳ, ಗಲಿಬಿಲಿ, ಗೊಂದಲ

scrimmage in Odia

ସ୍କ୍ରିମମେଜ୍ କରିବା

Forms of scrimmage

Noun
pluralscrimmages
Verb
third-person singular presentscrimmages
present participlescrimmaging
past participlescrimmaged
pastscrimmaged

Plural of scrimmage: scrimmages

Origin of scrimmage

A corruption of skirmish.

Words formed from scrimmage

Phrases with scrimmage

Questions about scrimmage

What does scrimmage mean?
Scrimmage means a rough fight.
What is scrimmage in Tamil?
Scrimmage in Tamil is ஸ்கிரிம்மிங். See Scrimmage meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is scrimmage?
Scrimmage can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce scrimmage?
Scrimmage is pronounced /ˈskɹɪmɪd͡ʒ/ (UK).
What is the plural of scrimmage?
The plural of scrimmage is scrimmages.

Words near scrimmage in the dictionary

  1. scrimblo
  2. Scrimblo Bimblo
  3. scrimblos
  4. scrimers
  5. Scrimgeour
  6. scrimmage
  7. scrimmaged
  8. scrimmager
  9. scrimmagers
  10. scrimmages
  11. scrimmaging

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: scrimmage (page history and authors); scrimmage (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); scrimmage (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); scrimmage (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); scrimmage (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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