Scrappers

Still, Xerox, filled with "scrappers" and "penny pinchers," needs to add some risk to the mix, said Burns, 51. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Detectives are also trying to determine whether Repinski and his associate are one of a group of people known as "scrappers" who have been stealing copper wiring and plumbing in Pueblo. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This belief appears to have deserted the "scrappers" of world rugby. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And while contemporary "scrappers" may not be thinking about future historians, a good number are thinking about an audience - and it isn't just the grandkids. ❋ Unknown (2008)

So is it the food thing that causes these scrappers to get no love? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Thankfully, moments before Dos Santos and Velasquez threw punches for one minute, lightweight scrappers Benson Henderson and Clay Guida thrilled the live crowd in Anaheim with three rounds of up-and-down mixed martial arts action. ❋ Elliot Worsell (2011)

They are scrappers with no taste, always spoiling for a fight. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I always try to include a 6 X 6 scrapbook page in all my workshops to entice any of those professional or would-be scrappers that happen to be in attendance .... ❋ Jpitta (2009)

Even under the most lacerating attacks Mancini's scrappers maintained their shape and purpose. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In truth, experience might be the only thing this next generation of British scrappers lack. ❋ Elliot Worsell (2010)

We came here from all over the world, one by one, scrappers all, seeking a better life. ❋ Julie Gray (2011)

Whenever international caps are thrown around liberally, and particularly when players with a reputation as effective scrappers rather than classical thoroughbreds are picked, there are always complaints from those who feel that this sort of thing—and, indeed, T20 in general—devalues the international game. ❋ Richard Lord (2012)

Thomas said Wasps, whose success in the previous decade was achieved despite not enjoying the same level of income as Leicester, were determined not to emulate Sale and decline from champions to scrappers against relegation in less than four years. ❋ Unknown (2011)