scrimmage
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- n (American football) practice play between a football team's squads
- n a noisy riotous fight
- v practice playing (a sport)
- Emmy-deserving Connie Britton and a refreshingly real cast of teens round out a small-town story that's as searing as a 100-degree scrimmage.
- In perhaps their last scrimmage without Fred Thompson, Mark Halperin says Rudy, Romney and McCain had their way with the crowded field.
- The battle for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination may well be won in the playing fields of the state primariesor in the scrimmages beforehand.