# scrum
## English
### Etymology

Either a back-formation from or an apocopic form of scrummage, a variant of scrimmage.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /skɹʌm/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʌm

### Noun

scrum (plural scrums)
* A tightly-packed and disorderly crowd of people.
    A scrum developed around the bar when free beer was announced.
* (Canada) A tightly packed group of reporters surrounding a person, usually a politician, asking for comments about an issue; an opportunity provided for a politician to be approached this way.
    A scrum formed around Scott Brison in the House of Commons lobby shortly after he announced his candidacy for the federal Liberal leadership.
* (rugby) In rugby union or rugby league, all the forwards joined together in an organised way.
    Synonyms: scrumdown, scrummage
* (software engineering) In Agile software development (specifically Scrum or related methodologies), a daily meeting in which each developer describes what they have been doing, what they plan to do next, and any impediments to progress.
* Hostile shoving between two groups.
** 2021 May 11, Patrick Kingsley, Isabel Kershner, “After Raid on Aqsa Mosque, Rockets From Gaza and Israeli Airstrikes”, in New York Times‎:[A] group of far-right lawmakers tried to mark Jerusalem Day by forcing their way into the street inhabited by the Palestinians listed for eviction. A group of leftist and Arab lawmakers blocked their path, setting off a brief scrum, before at least one far-right lawmaker ... broke through the Arabs' lines."

#### Derived terms

* loose scrum
* scrum feed
* scrum-half
* scrum machine
* scrum poker

#### Descendants

* French: scrum

#### Translations

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#### See also

* maul
* ruck

#### Further reading

* scrum (rugby) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Verb

scrum (third-person singular simple present scrums, present participle scrumming, simple past and past participle scrummed)
* (rugby, intransitive) To form a scrum.

#### Derived terms

* scrum up

### Proper noun

scrum
* (software engineering) Alternative letter-case form of Scrum

### Anagrams

* Crums, crums

## Aromanian
### Etymology

From Albanian shkrumb (“ash”).

### Noun

scrum n (plural scrumuri)
* ashes

#### Derived terms

* ascrum
* nscrum
* scrumedz

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English scrum.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

scrum m (plural scrums, diminutive scrummetje n)
* (rugby) scrum
* (software engineering) scrum

#### Derived terms

* scrumbord
* scrummaster
* scrumteam

### Further reading

* scrum on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{nl}$

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English scrum.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

scrum m (plural scrums)
* (Canada) scrum: A crowd of reporters and spokesperson

## Romanian
### Etymology

Unknown. Possibly from archaic scrumb; a substratum word, akin to or from Albanian shkrumb. Other theories include Cuman Turkic kurum ("soot") (cf. Hungarian korom). Alternatively, it may simply be from an expressive root.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [skrum]

### Noun

scrum n (plural scrumuri)
* ash
* slag

#### Derived terms

* scrumieră
* scrumelniță, (rare)

#### See also

* cenușă f

### References

* ↑ http://www.dex.ro/scrum