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scrubber
1[ skruhb-er ]
noun
- a person who scrubs.
- a device or process for removing pollutants from smoke or gas produced by burning high-sulfur fuels.
- a machine or appliance used in scrubbing:
an automatic floor scrubber.
scrubber
2[ skruhb-er ]
noun
- a mongrel, especially a mongrel steer.
- a thin or stunted steer.
- Australian.
- an inhabitant of the bush.
- any domestic animal that has run off into the bush and become wild, especially a steer.
scrubber
3[ skruhb-er ]
noun
, British Slang.
- a prostitute or promiscuous woman.
scrubber
1/ ˈskrʌbə /
noun
- a person or thing that scrubs
- an apparatus for purifying a gas
- derogatory.a promiscuous woman
scrubber
2/ ˈskrʌbə /
noun
- a domestic animal, esp a bullock, that has run wild in the bush
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Word History and Origins
Origin of scrubber3
First recorded in 1955–60; variously explained as sense development of either scrubber 1 (in the sense “a person who scrubs; charwoman,” or scrubber 2 (in the Australian sense “(female) animal that runs into the bush and becomes wild”; compare earlier scrub in same sense
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Word History and Origins
Origin of scrubber1
C19: from scrub ²
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Example Sentences
The apparatus consequently supplies the place of the exhauster and the scrubber.
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He walked over and pulled one of the brushes off the defunct scrubber and sudsed it up.
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The scrubber is a vessel containing in its lower part water, W, supplied by a pipe, and having an overflow.
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Here I am boxed up, like a scrubber in a pound, year after year—and years after that—for I don't know how long.
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Jemmy the Scrubber, unable to imbue the rest of his watch with his own restless activity, gave me no peace night or day.
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