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scrubber

/ˈskɹʌbə/ UK
/ˈskɹʌbɚ/ US
/ˈskɹɐbə/ Australia, New Zealand
/ˈskɹʊbə/ Northern England
/ˈskɹʊbəɹ/ Ireland
/ˈskɹʌbəɹ/ Northern Ireland, Scotland

Rhymes with -ʌbə(ɹ)

noun scrubbers

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.
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.’
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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@misc{scrubber_2026,
  title = {scrubber},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/scrubber},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}