noun A crowd of people squashed closely together in a disorderly way.
- A scrum of shoppers pushed toward the doors on the first morning of the sale.
- I got stuck in a scrum at the train station exit.
- The fans formed a noisy scrum around the band's bus.
- A scrum developed around the bar when free beer was announced.
noun A crowd of journalists gathered closely around someone, usually a politician, to ask questions.
- Reporters formed a scrum around the mayor outside city hall.
- She answered questions in a media scrum after the announcement.
- The coach walked through the scrum of cameras without saying a word.
- A scrum formed around Scott Brison in the House of Commons lobby shortly after he announced his candidacy for the federal Liberal leadership.
noun (computing) In agile development, a short daily meeting where each team member says what they have done, what they will do next, and what is blocking them.
- Our scrum starts at nine every morning and rarely lasts fifteen minutes.
- I mentioned the broken test in today's scrum so someone could help.
- Before the scrum, she wrote down what she had finished yesterday.
