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Scrubber

//ˈskɹʌbə// noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person or appliance that cleans floors or similar by scrubbing.
  2. 2
    a purifier that removes impurities from a gas wordnet
  3. 3
    A soft and flexible handheld polymer-fiber implement for scrubbing tasks.
  4. 4
    a brush with short stiff bristles for heavy cleaning wordnet
  5. 5
    A device that removes impurities from gases.
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  1. 6
    a worker who uses a scrub brush to clean a surface (usually a floor or deck) wordnet
  2. 7
    A machine for washing leather after the tanpit. historical
  3. 8
    An animal (especially cattle) that has broken away from the herd and established itself in the bush. Commonwealth
  4. 9
    Someone who lives in the bush; a wild person, someone only partly assimilated into society. Australia

    "‘He was a real scrubber that old feller,’ he confided gleefully. ‘No one never got a tag on him before this.’"

  5. 10
    A prostitute or a slovenly woman. Ireland, UK, slang

    "What did you think, it was happy ever after with a Woodlands Road scrubber in a seaside resort?"

  6. 11
    A dirty or unhygienic person. Ireland, UK, slang
  7. 12
    A horizontal bar allowing the user to set the playback position.

Etymology

From scrub + -er.

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