scrubeenie

English

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scrubeenie (plural scrubeenies)

(US, slang, sports) substitute
- 2009 February 15, Rosie DiManno, “Antropov answers Burke's call”, in Toronto Star‎^[1]:
  While Jason Blake continued his goal-popping ways with a brace in the third, only 19 seconds apart, a clutch of other Leafs proved mettle: Vesa Toskala, so shaky to start, settled down and denied Pittsburgh anything after the 8:34 point of the game; scrubeenie defenceman Luke Schenn recovered from an unfortunate bounce off his skate that Matt Cooke converted into Pittsburgh's first goal; and Matt Stajan re-established favour with his bench boss, mounting a solid performance topped off by a goal and an assist.