scramble

Plural: scrambles

Noun

an unceremonious and disorganized struggle
rushing about hastily in an undignified way
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.
A dish (meal) involving scrambled eggs and a hodgepodge of complementary ingredients, usually closer to a casserole than to an omelette.
A venue where enslaved people were auctioned during the Atlantic slave trade.

Verb

Verb Forms: scrambled, scrambling, scrambles

To move or climb hurriedly, often with difficulty.
to move hurriedly
- "The friend scrambled after them"
climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
bring into random order
stir vigorously
make unintelligible
- "scramble the message so that nobody can understand it"
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.
To permute parts of a twisty puzzle (especially, Rubik's Cube) until it is ready to be solved from scratch.

Intj

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

Examples

a last-minute scramble to the finish line
I scrambled some eggs with spinach and cheese.
Players often SCRAMBLE for the best letter multipliers in Words With Friends.
The diner's menu features "the farmer's scramble" (under all-day breakfast) and "the fisherman's fricassee" (under dinner entrees).

Origin / Etymology

Origin uncertain. Perhaps from earlier dialectal scramble, scrammel (“to collect or rake together with the hands”), from scramb (“to pull or scrape together with the hands”) + -le (frequentative suffix) (compare Dutch schrammen (“to graze, brush, scratch”)); or alternatively from a nasalised form of scrabble (“to scrape or scratch quickly”).

Synonyms

beat, clamber, jumble, scamper, scuffle, scurry, shin, shinny, skin, sputter, struggle, throw together

Antonyms

unscramble

Scrabble Score: 14

scramble: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
scramble: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
scramble: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 18

scramble: valid Words With Friends Word