[ adj ] full of fighting spirit <adj.all> a scrappy admiral
Scrappy \Scrap"py\, a. Consisting of scraps; fragmentary; lacking unity or consistency; as, a scrappy lecture.
A dreadfully scrappy dinner. --Thackeray.
The high-flying Pirates have been baseball's biggest surprise this year, leading the National League Eastern division. What's more, management believes the scrappy club can sell 2 million tickets, enough to eke out a profit.
Otherwise, it is the Munich formula as usual: end-of-season offerings performed by glossy names on little or no rehearsal to often scrappy, lacklustre effect.
Pitted against Goebbels's overweening propaganda machine, a scrappy figure like Norman Ebbutt of the London Times (Peter Jeffrey) looks heroic even when shouting a drunken warning to an arriving delegation of befuddled Britons.
Jones, 47, is cast as the scrappy, nothing-to-lose challenger with a folksy, accessible style and independent agenda.
Residents of Tepito, a scrappy inner-city slum, were glad to oblige.
The scrappy 67-year-old Mr. Dworkin, who spent his life building the Revco empire from a single Detroit drugstore, has been ousted.
They run, posture, trudge through snippets of their repertory as scrappy and insolent as the sound-track.
Keep your fingers crossed and hope that BBC2 does not decide to 'update' coverage of the Cardiff Singer Of The World contest as it did the Young Musician competition, turning it into a chat show with scrappy musical inserts.
It also wasn't clear as of late Wednesday whether Johnson, a scrappy, daring adversary, would try to reopen what already has proven to be an extremely unpredictable battle.
Some Shugrue backers say he's succeeded in giving Eastern a scrappy, positive image.
Mr. Terra describes himself as "short and scrappy."