Scrum vs Shove - What's the difference?
scrum | shove |
A tightly-packed and disorderly crowd of people.
(Canada) Specifically used in the Canadian media to describe a tightly-packed group of reporters surrounding a member of the Canadian House of Commons while in the Parliament Buildings.
(senseid) (rugby) In rugby union or rugby league, all the forwards joined together in an organised way. Also known as a scrummage.
In (Agile software development), a daily meeting in which each developer describes what they have been doing, what they plan to do next, and any impediments to progress.
To push, especially roughly or with force.
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, title= To move off or along by an act of pushing, as with an oar or pole used in a boat; sometimes with off .
* Garth
To make an all-in bet.
(label) To pass (counterfeit money).
A rough push.
* Jonathan Swift
(poker slang) An all-in bet.
As nouns the difference between scrum and shove
is that scrum is a tightly-packed and disorderly crowd of people while shove is a rough push.As a verb shove is
to push, especially roughly or with force.scrum
English
Noun
(en noun)- ''A scrum developed around the bar when free beer was announced.
- ''A scrum formed around Scott Brison shortly after he announced his candidacy for the federal Liberal leadership.
See also
* ruck, maul, scrum-half * Wikipedia article on ----shove
English
Verb
(shov)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor. 'Twas a dismal sort of place, with hair wreaths, and wax fruit, and tin lambrekins, and land knows what all}}
- He grasped the oar, received his guests on board, and shoved from shore.
Derived terms
* shover * shove off * shove-it * push and shove * shove ha'pennyNoun
(en noun)- I rested and then gave the boat another shove .