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scrimmage

skri mij

  • 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.
Quotes

  • Ryan Spilborghs in USA Today
    I think there are times I see things that maybe I feel like we could get to or a change that maybe at the line of scrimmage I could get to. As I've told [offensive coordinator] Darrell [Bevell] and I've told [Childress] and anyone who has ever... Brett Favre http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Favre&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGEO65i4Jbmm603CuJO74QQXOVcqw ESPN http://www.google.com/url?q=http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/nfl/news/story%3Fid%3D4767366&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEmfRCsogJGz2zuPsVhnFvGaLfxkA Dec 23, 2009 86925 116220 scrimmage We'll probably scrimmage ourselves," outfielder Ryan Spilborghs said. "And it'll be the first time in a while we'll lose."
  • Roger Goodell in ESPN
    It was interesting,Goodell said. "It was raised by a few clubs, more in the context of what the colleges do with the spring game. It could be in the form of the scrimmage, too. It was just an interesting concept. It's been raised before."

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