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- adjective
superlative form ofscrappy : mostscrappy .
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Examples
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Tonight the scrappiest, fastest, and best-built team of players from all over the world of hockey pulled together through one of the most exciting Stanley Cup Finals Series in recent memory, to bring home the dream that every kid who ever played the game has had.
Scott Foval: The Dream Comes Home for Chicago's Blackhawks, And All of Us 2010
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Tonight the scrappiest, fastest, and best-built team of players from all over the world of hockey pulled together through one of the most exciting Stanley Cup Finals Series in recent memory, to bring home the dream that every kid who ever played the game has had.
Scott Foval: The Dream Comes Home for Chicago's Blackhawks, And All of Us 2010
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From the early 1930s, Warner Bros. had made its reputation as Hollywood's scrappiest and most political studio with gritty, realistic films inspired by banner headlines and controversial social problems — films such as Public Enemy (1931) and I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932).
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007
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I suspect they think 2000 taught them that victory goes to the side that's the toughest, the scrappiest and the least scrupled, without much thought to how well that worked out for them in the long run.
Coleman's Lawsuit: This Whole Election Stinks -- And I Won 2009
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Black dew beads on plants, and rivers, once clear and full of fish, are home to only the scrappiest varieties of fish, which are easily fried in their own grease.
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But the Russians aren't any more proud than the Finns, who thus far have been the scrappiest team in the tournament.
USATODAY.com - Selanne, Finland dare to ponder possibilities 2006
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It was also the scrappiest, ugliest goal of the entire world cup.
Archive 2006-06-01 Minzo 2006
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It was also the scrappiest, ugliest goal of the entire world cup.
When did you last think of your nose? and what does phallanx mean? Minzo 2006
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Their bassist was the scrappiest most unlikely dude and it made me so happy to see him on stage at Emo's.
Archive 2004-08-01 2004
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Their bassist was the scrappiest most unlikely dude and it made me so happy to see him on stage at Emo's.
as GusGus says to Cinderelly... Happy Birtday! | Perfection Quest 2004
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