scrubber
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Etymology edit
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Noun edit
scrubber (plural scrubbers)
- A person or appliance that cleans floors or similar by scrubbing.
- A device that removes impurities from gases.
- (historical) A machine for washing leather after the tanpit.
- (Australia, New Zealand) 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.
- 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 74:
- ‘He was a real scrubber that old feller,’ he confided gleefully. ‘No one never got a tag on him before this.’
- (British, slang) A prostitute or a slovenly woman.
- 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 267:
- What did you think, it was happy ever after with a Woodlands Road scrubber in a seaside resort?
- (British, slang) A dirty or unhygienic person.
- (graphical user interface, audio, video) A horizontal bar allowing the user to set the playback position.