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plural scrimmages
A rough fight. quotations examples
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 […]
(US) In some team sports, especially soccer, a practice game which does not count on a team's record. examples
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. examples
third-person singular simple present scrimmages, present participle scrimmaging, simple past and past participle scrimmaged
To have, or be involved in, a scrimmage. quotations examples
Elwood caught sight of a football field where some boys scrimmaged and yelped.
2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 45