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Original entry ↗A tightly packed and disorderly crowd of people. · 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. · In rugby union or rugby league, all the forwards joined together in an organised way. · 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.
Either a back-formation from or an apocopic form of scrummage, a variant of scrimmage.
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