scramble
Short definition from Wiktionary
Verb
- 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.
Noun
- 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.
Interjection
- Shouted when something desirable is thrown into a group of people who individually want that item, causing them to rush for it.
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