Scrubber
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈskɹʌbə/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Scrubber is a noun meaning A person or appliance that cleans floors or similar by scrubbing.
Meaning
A person or appliance that cleans floors or similar by scrubbing.
More Meanings
- A soft and flexible handheld polymer-fiber implement for scrubbing tasks.
- A device that removes impurities from gases.
- (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.
- (UK, Ireland, slang) A prostitute or a slovenly woman.
- (UK, Ireland, slang) A dirty or unhygienic person.
- (historical) A machine for washing leather after the tanpit.
Example Sentences
What did you think, it was happy ever after with a Woodlands Road scrubber in a seaside resort?
‘He was a real scrubber that old feller,’ he confided gleefully. ‘No one never got a tag on him before this.’
Word Forms
- scrubbers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include washer, laundry, washout, scrubbing, washing, handwashing.
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