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scrub

2[skruhb]
–noun
1. low trees or shrubs collectively.
2. a large area covered with low trees and shrubs, as the Australian bush.
3. a domestic animal of mixed or inferior breeding; mongrel.
4. a small or insignificant person.
5. anything undersized or inferior.
6. Sports. a player not belonging to the varsity or regular team; a player who is not first-string.
–adjective
7. small, undersized, or stunted.
8. inferior or insignificant.
9. abounding in or covered with low trees and shrubs: They rode through scrub country.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME < Scand; cf. dial. Dan skrub brushwood; see shrub 1
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Slang Dictionary
scrub

  1. tv.
    to cancel something. : We had to scrub the whole plan because of the weather.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

scrub  (n.)
"brush, shrubs," 1398, "low, stunted tree," variant of shrobbe (see shrub), perhaps infl. by a Scand. word (cf. Dan. dial. skrub "a stunted tree, brushwood"). Collective sense is attested from 1805. Transferred sense of "mean, insignificant fellow" is from 1589; U.S. sports meaning "athlete not on the varsity team" is recorded from 1892.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 2scrub
Function: noun
: an act or instance of scrubbing scrub>
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