[V] [usually +adv./prep.] ~ (around / about) (for sth) (especially BrE) to try to find or to do sth in a hurry or with difficulty, often by moving your hands or feet about quickly, without much control:
She scrabbled around in her bag for her glasses. * He was scrabbling for a foothold on the steep slope. * a sound like rats scrabbling on the other side of the wall * In his panic, he began scrabbling at the lock. * The kids scrabbled up the slope.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for scrabble is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is scrabble a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, scrabble is tagged as verb.
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