Usually means: Write hastily and carelessly; scribble.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word scrawl:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. scrawl: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. scrawl: Merriam-Webster
  3. scrawl: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. scrawl: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. scrawl: Collins English Dictionary
  6. scrawl: Vocabulary.com
  7. Scrawl, scrawl: Wordnik
  8. scrawl: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. scrawl: Wiktionary
  10. scrawl: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. scrawl: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. scrawl: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. scrawl: Dictionary.com
  14. scrawl (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. scrawl: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Scrawl (album), Scrawl (film), Scrawl: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Scrawl: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. scrawl: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. scrawl: Rhymezone
  20. scrawl: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. scrawl: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. SCRAWL: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. scrawl: FreeDictionary.org
  24. scrawl: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. scrawl: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scrawl: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scrawl: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scrawl: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See scrawled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Irregular, possibly illegible handwriting.
noun:  A hastily or carelessly written note etc.
noun:  Writing that lacks literary merit.
noun:  (countable, uncommon) A broken branch of a tree.
noun:  (uncommon) The young of the dog-crab.
verb:  (transitive) To write something hastily or illegibly.
verb:  (intransitive) To write in an irregular or illegible manner.
verb:  (intransitive) To write unskilfully and inelegantly.
verb:  To creep; crawl; to move slowly, with difficulty, fearfully, or stealthily.

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