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Is scrub a Scrabble word?

Yes, scrub is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 9 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of scrub?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (uncountable) A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant.Examples: "oak scrub"; "I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn."uncountable

2. (uncountable) Vegetation judged to be of inferior quality or of little use to humans, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush.uncountable

3. (countable, US, stock breeding) One of the common livestock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, especially when inferior in size, etc.; particularly a male animal poorly suited for breeding.UScountable

4. (countable, derogatory) One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.Examples: "A sorry scrub, said Mr. High-mind."; "We should go there in as proper a manner possible; nor altogether like the scrubs about us."; "A scrub is a guy that thinks he's fly And is also known as a buster Always talkin' about what he wants And just sits on his broke ass […]"countablederogatory

5. (countable, slang, derogatory) One who is incompetent or unable to complete easy tasks.Examples: "Wow, she really scored 0? What a scrub!"countablederogatoryslang

6. (countable, sports, slang) One not on the first team of players; a substitute.countableslang

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brighteningExamples: "to scrub a floor"; "to scrub your fingernails"transitive

2. (intransitive) To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scourintransitive

3. (intransitive, figuratively) To be diligent and penuriousExamples: "to scrub hard for a living"figurativelyintransitive

4. (transitive) To call off a scheduled event; to cancel.Examples: "Engineers had to scrub the satellite launch due to bad weather."transitive

5. (databases, transitive) To eliminate or to correct data from a set of records to bring it inline with other similar datasetsExamples: "The street segment data from the National Post Office will need to be scrubbed before it can be integrated into our system."transitive

6. (audio) To move a recording tape back and forth with a scrubbing motion to produce a scratching sound, or to do so by a similar use of a control on an editing system.

noun (English)

1. (medicine, in the plural) Clothing worn while performing surgery.Synonyms: surgical gownin-plural

2. (by extension, in the plural) Any medical uniform consisting of a short-sleeved shirt and pants (trousers).Examples: "A man dressed as a lab tech, his blue scrubs startlingly pale against the vivid red and black chaos, moved into sight from behind the SUV. He carried an assault rifle."broadlyin-plural

3. (slang, obsolete) Informal attire or dress code; morning dressExamples: "The third, which was as homely as its name, and which she reserved for scouring the country and such like rough usage in quite private rural life, was her "Scrub.""; "For one of Lucia's quaint ideas was to divide dresses into three classes, "Hightum," "Tightum" and "Scrub.""obsoleteslang

Definition source: Wiktionary

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

How many Scrabble points is the word "scrub"?

Scrabble
9 points
S1
C3
R1
U1
B3
Words With Friends
12 points
S1
C4
R1
U2
B4

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