scouts

noun

1. (form-of, plural)plural of scout
2. (form-of, plural)plural of Scout

verb

1. (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person)third-person singular simple present indicative of scout

name

1. A worldwide youth movement with the aim of supporting young people in their physical, mental and spiritual development, so that they may play a constructive role in the society http://www.scout.org/.

   “Lord Baden-Powell of England is generally given credit for founding the Scouts. There is no doubt he founded the Scout movement in England along military […]”

   “In that year Percy Everett suggested that to prevent the Scouts being squeezed out (as they might be if cadet training were to become compulsory for all boys) […]”

   “Boer War hero Robert Baden-Powell founded the Scouts in 1907 so that young men might put military and colonial frontier discipline to work in suburban peacetime.”

   “Baden-Powell did not himself write animal stories, but when he decided to form an organisation for younger boys, modelled on the Scouts, […]”

2. Any of the national Scouts organizations.

   “The most common criterion of effectiveness quoted from within the Scout Movement is that of the large number of former Scouts who become successful in later [life …]”

   “The Scouts promise to make a real effort to help Mrs Tuttleby find a Scout group which will appoint her as a leader with a restricted warrant.”

   “Civic projects were sponsored through service clubs such as Rotary, Apex and Lions. Children might attend Brownies or Cubs, the Guides or the Scouts. […] By the 1960s Australian cultural activities were also being put on an international footing.”

   “The Scouts also took him further afield than his native Melbourne. At the end of 1938, he sailed to Sydney for the Scout Jamboree on the Canberra.”

   “[…] and in 2002, the Guides, Scouts, Returned and Serves League and Surf Life Saving clubs all sponsored Harmony Day.”

3. The Selous Scouts, a special forces regiment of the former Rhodesian Army.

   “[…] Turning the tables, the Scouts bit the biter by blowing up […]”

   “Column strength never exceeded 72 men, and the results achieved were out of all proportion. In alone the Scouts notched up 1,257 kills, only 180 of them internal.”

   “As the terrorists in Rhodesia relied heavily on letters for communication, the Scouts often captured a bonanza of intelligence […]”

   “The Scouts recognised that dead CTs were either abandoned or buried and forgotten, whereas the living wounded presented an unwanted burden […]”