Word.ws English Dictionary

scrum up

scrum up verb: to force an opponent upward during a scrum, in a move that is forbidden.

Verb

scrum up (third-person singular simple present scrums up, present participle scrumming up, simple past and past participle scrummed up)

  1. (rugby union) To force an opponent upward during a scrum, in a move that is forbidden.

Forms of scrum up

third-person singular presentscrums up
present participlescrumming up
past participlescrummed up
pastscrummed up

Questions about scrum up

What does scrum up mean?
Scrum up means to force an opponent upward during a scrum, in a move that is forbidden.
What part of speech is scrum up?
Scrum up is a verb.
What is the past tense of scrum up?
The past tense of scrum up is scrummed up.

Words near scrum up in the dictionary

  1. scrum machine
  2. scrum machines
  3. Scrum master
  4. Scrum masters
  5. scrum poker
  6. scrum up
  7. scrum-diddly-umptious
  8. scrum-half
  9. scrum-halves
  10. Scrumban
  11. scrumbase

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: scrum up (page history and authors). 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “scrum up.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/scrum_up. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.