| scrimmage | (n) (American football) practice play between a football team's squads |
| scrimmage | (v) practice playing (a sport) |
| scrimmage line | (n) line parallel to the goal lines where football linesmen line up at the start of each play in American football, Syn. line of scrimmage, Example: the runner was tackled at the line of scrimmage |
| Scrimmage | n. [ A corruption of skirmish. “Sore scrymmishe.” Ld. Berners. ] |