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Is scab a Scrabble word?

Yes, scab is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 8 points in Scrabble.

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Definition

noun (English)

1. (colloquial or obsolete) The scabies.colloquialcountableobsoleteuncountable

2. (uncountable) Any of several different diseases of potatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused by streptomyces bacteria (but formerly believed to be caused by a fungus).uncountable

3. (phytopathology) Any one of various more or less destructive fungal diseases that attack cultivated plants, forming dark-colored crustlike spots.countableuncountable

4. (founding) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.countableuncountable

5. (derogatory, slang) A worker who acts against trade union policies; any picket crosser (strikebreaker), and especially one with devotion to union busting.Examples: "When a scab comes down the street, men turn their backs and angels weep in heaven, and the devil shuts the gates of hell to keep him out."Synonyms: blackleg, blacklegger, knobstick, scaliecountablederogatoryslanguncountable

verb (English)

1. (intransitive) To become covered by a scab or scabs.intransitive

2. (intransitive) To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin.Examples: "1734, Royal Society of London, The Philosophical Transactions (1719 - 1733) Abridged, Volume 7, page 631, Thoſe Puſtules aroſe, maturated, and ſcabbed off, intirely like the true Pox."; "Trev walked over and leaned down, dropping a tender kiss on her forehead where the skin was raw and scabbing from the cut."; "The bark that wasn′t already scabbed off was peppered with beetle holes."intransitive

3. (transitive) To remove part of a surface (from).Examples: "The beds shall be scabbed off to give a solid bearing, no pinning shall be admitted between the backing and the face stones and there shall be a good square joint not exceeding one inch in width, and the face stone shall be scabbed off to allow this."transitive

4. (intransitive) To act as a strikebreaker.Examples: "Don't scab for the bosses / Don't listen to their lies / Us poor folks haven't got a chance / Unless we organize."; "Nobody desires to scab, to give most for least. The ambition of every individual is quite the opposite, to give least for most; and, as a result, living in a tooth-and-nail society, battle royal is waged by the ambitious individuals."intransitive

5. (transitive, UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal) To beg (for), to cadge or bum.Examples: "I scabbed some money off a friend."; "2004, Niven Govinden, We are the New Romantics, Bloomsbury Publishing, UK, page 143, Finding a spot in a covered seating area that was more bus shelter than tourist-friendly, I unravelled a mother of a joint I′d scabbed off the garçon."; "2006, Linda Jaivin, The Infernal Optimist, 2010, HarperCollins Australia, unnumbered page, I′d already used up me mobile credit. I was using a normal phone card, what I got from Hamid, what got it from a church lady what helped the refugees. I didn′t like scabbing from the asylums, but they did get a lotta phone cards."AustraliaNew-ZealandUKinformaltransitive

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "scab"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "scab"?

Scrabble
8 points
S1
C3
A1
B3
Words With Friends
10 points
S1
C4
A1
B4

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