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Word: scab
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Meaning:
Noun:
- A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
- An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
- botany Any one of various more or less destructive diseases attacking cultivated plants, and forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
- (''colloquial or obsolete'') The scabies.
- (''founding'') A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
- Several different potatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused by ''Streptomyces'' -bacteria.
- Short form for common scab, a relatively harmless variety of '''scab''' caused by ''Streptomyces scabies''.
- slang A worker who acts against trade union policies, especially a strikebreaker.
- The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.
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Verb:
- intransitive To act as strikebreaker.
- intransitive To get covered by a scab.
- Australia To beg (for), cadge, bum
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