scramble

Meanings

Verb

  • To move hurriedly to a location, especially by using all limbs against a surface.
  • To proceed to a location or an objective in a disorderly manner.
  • To thoroughly combine and cook as a loose mass.
  • To process (telecommunication signals) to make them unintelligible to an unauthorized listener.
  • To quickly deploy (vehicles, usually aircraft) to a destination in response to an alert, usually to intercept an attacking enemy.
  • To be quickly deployed in this manner.
  • To partake in motocross.
  • To ascend rocky terrain as a leisure activity.
  • To gather or collect by scrambling.
  • To struggle eagerly with others for something thrown upon the ground; to go down upon all fours to seize something; to catch rudely at what is desired.
  • To throw something down for others to compete for in this manner.

Noun

  • A rush or hurry, especially making use of the limbs against a surface.
  • An emergency defensive air force mission to intercept attacking enemy aircraft.
  • A motocross race.
  • Any frantic period of competitive activity.
  • An impromptu maneuver or run by a quarterback, attempting to gain yardage or avoid being tackled behind the line of scrimmage.
  • A statistic used in assessing a player's short game, consisting of a chip or putt from under 50 yards away that results in requiring one putt or less on the green.
  • A variant of golf in which each player in a team tees off on each hole, and the players decide which shot was best. Every player then plays their second shot from within a club length of where the best ball has come to rest, and the procedure is repeated until the hole is finished.

Interjection

  • Shouted when something desirable is thrown into a group of people who individually want that item, causing them to rush for it.

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Origin

  • Origin uncertain. Perhaps from earlier dialectal scramb + -le; or alternatively from a nasalised form of scrabble.

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