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soap scrimmage

soap scrimmage
 n.— «The same thing happened in our soap scrimmage.…But I didn’t catch it. I didn’t even see it.» —“Late TD Pass Lifts Bulldogs Past Northeast” by Larry Porter in Lincoln Omaha World-Herald (Neb.) Sept. 7, 1985. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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