Associations to the word «Scrimmage»

Wiktionary

SCRIMMAGE, noun. A rough fight.
SCRIMMAGE, noun. (United States) In some team sports, especially soccer, a practice game which does not count on a team's record.
SCRIMMAGE, noun. 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.
SCRIMMAGE, verb. To have, or be involved in, a scrimmage.

Dictionary definition

SCRIMMAGE, noun. (American football) practice play between a football team's squads.
SCRIMMAGE, noun. A noisy riotous fight.
SCRIMMAGE, verb. Practice playing (a sport).

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats