This scrappy little software company has decided to take on the market leader.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
After a scrappy opening, Haslemere took the lead when James Simpson fired in a rebound.
Small and scrappy institutions will fold.
The final chapter is no more than a scrappy addition with rather a lot of photographs of by now familiar faces from November 1989.
Though when he thought of his scrappy essay he quaked rather.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES►scrappy notes
(=very short and not detailed enough)· Her rather scrappy notes weren’t much use when it came to revision.
1 British English untidy or badly organized: scrappy notes from the meeting2American English informal having a determined character and always willing to compete, argue, or fight: a scrappy team that plays hard