scrubber
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- Words With Friends
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- Letters
- 8
/ˈskɹʌbə/
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/ˈskɹʌbə/ · /ˈskɹʌbɚ/ (US) · /ˈskɹɐbə/ · /ˈskɹʊbə/ · /ˈskɹʊbəɹ/ · /ˈskɹʌbəɹ/
Definition of scrubber
9 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- A person or appliance that cleans floors or similar by scrubbing.
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noun
- A person or appliance that cleans floors or similar by scrubbing.
- A soft and flexible handheld polymer-fiber implement for scrubbing tasks.
- A device that removes impurities from gases.
- (historical)A machine for washing leather after the tanpit.
- (Commonwealth)An animal (especially cattle) that has broken away from the herd and established itself in the bush.
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(Australia)Someone who lives in the bush; a wild person, someone only partly assimilated into society.
“‘He was a real scrubber that old feller,’ he confided gleefully. ‘No one never got a tag on him before this.’”
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(Ireland, UK, slang)A prostitute or a slovenly woman.
“What did you think, it was happy ever after with a Woodlands Road scrubber in a seaside resort?”
- (Ireland, UK, slang)A dirty or unhygienic person.
- A horizontal bar allowing the user to set the playback position.
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Etymology
From scrub + -er.
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