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- adjective Mixed, disordered, shuffled.
- adjective this sense?) (of eggs)
Beaten and cooked. - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
scramble .
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- adjective thrown together in a disorderly fashion
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Examples
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Those are ways illegal aliens acquire SSNs and employers post earnings for the illegal to the SSN, resulting in what we called scrambled earnings records.
Firedoglake 2009
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Have you been listening to talk radio too much and got your brain scrambled??
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Ross Shanklin scrambled to his feet and stood watchfully and awkwardly.
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People and money are scrambled from the dark and ignored fringes to take centre-stage in the light.
“Ruralshire Constabulary to get TASER on the front line” « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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The captain scrambled toward the engine room, but when he arrived, he was blocked by the sealed vacuum doors.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » July : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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His mouth opened and closed, forming meaningless syllables while his brain scrambled to make sense of Tony's accusations.
Fic: Like Gum on Your Shoe Part 3/10, Adult Eventually, AU from JE rabid1st 2009
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The captain scrambled toward the engine room, but when he arrived, he was blocked by the sealed vacuum doors.
365 tomorrows » Collaboration : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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Then you chop them and use them in scrambled eggs.
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BTW, we eat leftover pico (I make extra on purpose) in scrambled eggs.
Pico de gallo recipe | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2008
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Just a Plane Ride Away -- I eat mine in scrambled eggs, too!
Pico de gallo recipe | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2008
michaelt42 commented on the word scrambled
Scrambled egg - British slang for the gold decoration (resembling oak leaves) on the peaks of the caps of senior naval officers. Corresponding police, army and air force ranks have similar decoration in other colours.
May 4, 2012