scrum

See also: SCRUM and Scrum

English
A rugby union scrum

Etymology

Either a back-formation from or an apocopic form of scrummage, a variant of scrimmage.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /skɹʌm/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌm

Noun

scrum (plural scrums)

  1. A tightly-packed and disorderly crowd of people.
    A scrum developed around the bar when free beer was announced.
  2. (Canada) A tightly packed group of reporters surrounding a person, usually a politician, asking for comments about an issue; an opportunity provided for a politician to be approached this way.
    A scrum formed around Scott Brison in the House of Commons lobby shortly after he announced his candidacy for the federal Liberal leadership.
  3. (rugby) In rugby union or rugby league, all the forwards joined together in an organised way.
    Synonyms: scrumdown, scrummage
  4. (software engineering) In Agile software development (specifically Scrum or related methodologies), a daily meeting in which each developer describes what they have been doing, what they plan to do next, and any impediments to progress.
  5. Hostile shoving between two groups.
    • 2021 May 11, Patrick Kingsley, Isabel Kershner, “After Raid on Aqsa Mosque, Rockets From Gaza and Israeli Airstrikes”, in New York Times‎:
      [A] group of far-right lawmakers tried to mark Jerusalem Day by forcing their way into the street inhabited by the Palestinians listed for eviction. A group of leftist and Arab lawmakers blocked their path, setting off a brief scrum, before at least one far-right lawmaker ... broke through the Arabs' lines."

Derived terms

Descendants
  • French: scrum

Translations
(Canada) a tightly packed group of reporters surrounding a spokesperson
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Further reading

Verb

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

  1. (rugby, intransitive) To form a scrum.

Proper noun

scrum

  1. (software engineering) Alternative letter-case form of Scrum

Anagrams

Aromanian

Etymology

From Albanian shkrumb (“ash”).

Noun

scrum n (plural scrumuri)

  1. ashes

Derived terms
  • ascrum
  • nscrum
  • scrumedz

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English scrum.

Pronunciation
  • Audio(file)

Noun

scrum m (plural scrums)

  1. (Canada) scrum: A crowd of reporters and spokesperson

Romanian

Etymology

Unknown. Possibly from archaic scrumb; a substratum word, akin to or from Albanian shkrumb. Other theories include Cuman Turkic kurum ("soot") (cf. Hungarian korom). Alternatively, it may simply be from an expressive root.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [skrum]

Noun

scrum n (plural scrumuri)

  1. ash
  2. slag

Declension
Declension of scrum
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) scrum scrumul (niște) scrumuri scrumurile
genitive/dative (unui) scrum scrumului (unor) scrumuri scrumurilor
vocative scrumule scrumurilor

Derived terms

See also

References
  1. http://www.dex.ro/scrum
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