Usually means: Mix or jumble things together.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word scramble:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. scramble: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. scramble: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scramble: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. scramble: Collins English Dictionary
  5. scramble: Vocabulary.com
  6. Scramble, scramble: Wordnik
  7. scramble: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. scramble: Wiktionary
  9. scramble: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. scramble: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. scramble: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. scramble: Dictionary.com
  13. scramble: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. scramble: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Scramble (album), Scramble (arcade game), Scramble (comics), Scramble (disambiguation), Scramble (film), Scramble (manga volume), Scramble (slave auction), Scramble (tabletop electronic game), Scramble (video game), Scramble: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Scramble: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. scramble: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. scramble: Rhymezone
  19. scramble: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. scramble: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. scramble: Free Dictionary
  22. scramble: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. scramble: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. scramble: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scramble (disambiguation), scramble: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scramble (disambiguation), scramble: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scramble (disambiguation), scramble: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scramble: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. scramble, scramble, scramble: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Scramble: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. Scramble: Urban Dictionary

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. scramble: Golfer's Dictionary
  4. Scramble: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. scramble: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To move hurriedly to a location, especially by using all limbs against a surface.
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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