Scrabble Common

an aimless drawing

"He spent the whole train ride just scribbling random lines and shapes on a napkin, creating a chaotic mess that looked like nothing in particular."

a board game in which words are formed from letters in patterns similar to a crossword puzzle; each letter has a value and those values are used to score the game

"We spent the rainy afternoon playing scrabble, trying to rack up points by forming long words across our intersecting tiles."

A scramble.

"The driver had to perform a frantic scrabble for his keys before he could unlock the car door."

feel searchingly

"She groped for his keys in the dark"

write down quickly without much attention to detail

"I had to scribble down the phone numbers before I forgot them, so they look a bit messy now."

To scrape or scratch powerfully with hands or claws.

"The cat began to scrabble at the door when it realized we had left without feeding it."

A board game in which players draw letter tiles and take turns to make interlocking words like a crossword, scoring points according to the letters played and their positions on the board.

"We spent the entire rainy afternoon playing Scrabble until we finally ran out of vowels."