Usually means: Messy, hurried, illegible written marks.
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  1. scrawls: Merriam-Webster
  2. scrawls: Collins English Dictionary
  3. scrawls: Vocabulary.com
  4. scrawls: Wordnik
  5. scrawls: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. scrawls: Wiktionary
  7. scrawls: Dictionary.com
  8. scrawls: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. scrawls: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. scrawls: Legal dictionary

(Note: See scrawl as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (scrawl)

noun:  Irregular, possibly illegible handwriting.
noun:  A hastily or carelessly written note etc.
noun:  Writing that lacks literary merit.
noun:  (countable, uncommon) A broken branch of a tree.
noun:  (uncommon) The young of the dog-crab.
verb:  (transitive) To write something hastily or illegibly.
verb:  (intransitive) To write in an irregular or illegible manner.
verb:  (intransitive) To write unskilfully and inelegantly.
verb:  To creep; crawl; to move slowly, with difficulty, fearfully, or stealthily.
▸ Also see scrawl


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