mêlée — meaning in English

English meaning

• scrum noun A tightly packed and disorderly crowd of people.

Senses

mêlée is used for these senses in English:

• pile-up (American football) A pile of tackling players.
• scrum (rugby) In rugby union or rugby league, all the forwards joined together in an organised way.

scrum — full definition

1. noun A tightly packed and disorderly crowd of people.
2. noun 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.
3. noun In rugby union or rugby league, all the forwards joined together in an organised way.
4. noun 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.

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