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• n  an aimless drawing
• n  a board game in which words are formed from letters in patterns similar to a crossword puzzle; each letter has a value and those values are used to score the game
• v  feel searchingly
• v  write down quickly without much attention to detail

• Machetes are not something you expect to find on hard-scrabble southern farms.
• Four pro-Western opposition parties must now scrabble together a coalition which they say will distance the country from Moscow, more fully embrace democracy and integrate with .
• As we middle-class parents scrabble to keep our children in the middle class, many of us have opted for academic standards over the chance to have our kids learn with others from a .

• scribble
• doodle
• Scrabble
• grope for

News & Articles

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• Celebrating Juneteenth with a parade
  Parade viewers scrabble to gather as many pieces of candy as they can after being tossed by four-wheel riders Saturday during the annual Juneteenth parade in downtown. The parade drew a large crowd and kicked off a full day of Juneteenth-related activities Saturday.
  June 17, 2013 - Brenham Banner-Press
• EA Takes Over Scrabble App, Wipes Player Histories and Switches Dictionary
  New submitter DeathToBill writes "EA is in the midst of another user backlash, the BBC reports. After EA took over operation of the online Scrabble brand, it introduced a 'new and improved' version. Improvements include requiring manual refreshes to see other players' turns, irretrievably wiping players' game history and a switch to the Collins dictionary (rather than the traditional Chambers ...
  June 14, 2013 - Slashdot
• Scrabble Club to meet Tuesday, June 11 at the library
  Scrabble Club will meet Tuesday, June 11 from 6:30 to 8:45 p.m. at the South County Library. The event is free. For more information, call 772-7507. From the Roanoke County website: The Roanoke Scrabble Club is open to anyone who wants to get together with other Scrabble enthusiasts to play this classic game. All level [...]
  June 11, 2013 - Roanoke Times

Quotes

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• Paul Goydos in CNN International
  If you had Rees Jones redo 'Scrabble,' he'd leave out the vowels,Paul Goydos said after a 74.
• Rex Harrington in Winnipeg Free Press
  He poured the Scrabble tiles out on the table and said, 'Figure this out,' recalled Harrington, an Officer of the Order of Canada who has the nickname "Sexy Rexy." "I sort of knew there was 'marry' in there but I ...... was trying to be...
• Carlton Cuse in CANOE
  Cuse says, "All our cast and crew is accounted for and safely away from coastal area. Jorge Garcia continues to thrash me in Scrabble via iPhone from Ken Leung's house. Our entire team in Hawaii appreciates all the positive energy being sent their...