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Either a back-formation from or an apocopic form of scrummage, a variant of scrimmage.
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Today it means: A tightly packed and disorderly crowd of people. Full definition →
Either a back-formation from or an apocopic form of scrummage, a variant of scrimmage.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.