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▸ verb: (intransitive) To proceed to a location or an objective in a disorderly manner.
▸ verb: (transitive, of food ingredients, usually including egg) To thoroughly combine and cook as a loose mass.
▸ verb: (transitive) To process telecommunication signals to make them unintelligible to an unauthorized listener.
▸ verb: (transitive, military, also by extension) To quickly deploy (vehicles, usually aircraft) to a destination in response to an alert, usually to intercept an attacking enemy.
▸ verb: (intransitive, military) To be quickly deployed in this manner.
▸ verb: (intransitive, sports) To partake in motocross.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To ascend rocky terrain as a leisure activity.
▸ verb: (transitive) To gather or collect by scrambling.
▸ verb: (transitive) To struggle eagerly with others for something thrown upon the ground; to go down upon all fours to seize something; to catch rudely at what is desired.
▸ verb: (transitive) To throw something down for others to compete for in this manner.
▸ verb: (Rubik's Cube) To permute parts of a twisty puzzle (especially, Rubik's Cube) until it is ready to be solved from scratch.
▸ noun: A rush or hurry, especially making use of the limbs against a surface.
▸ noun: (military) An emergency defensive air force mission to intercept attacking enemy aircraft.
▸ noun: A motocross race.
▸ noun: Any frantic period of competitive activity.
▸ noun: (gridiron football) An impromptu maneuver or run by a quarterback, attempting to gain yardage or avoid being tackled behind the line of scrimmage.
▸ noun: (golf) A statistic used in assessing a player's short game, consisting of a chip or putt from under 50 yards away that results in requiring one putt or less on the green.
▸ noun: (golf) A variant of golf in which each player in a team tees off on each hole, and the players decide which shot was best. Every player then plays their second shot from within a club length of where the best ball has come to rest, and the procedure is repeated until the hole is finished.
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