Definition of Scrub

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Definition of Scrub

Scrub

Vegetation of inferior quality, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush. See Brush, above.

A low, straggling tree of inferior quality.

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 brightening; as, to scrub a floor, a doorplate.

To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour; hence, to be diligent and penurious; as, to scrub hard for a living.

One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.

Something small and mean.

A worn-out brush.

A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant; as, oak scrub, palmetto scrub, etc.

One of the common live stock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, esp. when inferior in size, etc.

Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.

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Scrub Quotations

And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it.
Julius Erving

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.
Alan Alda

Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub.
Mary Austin

I thought it was going to take a lot more countdowns on the pad. We actually did scrub once, but I figured we'd scrub several times since it's a pretty complicated vehicle.
Robert Crippen

Scrub Translations

scrub in French is lessivage
scrub in Italian is strofinare, strofinare
scrub in Spanish is fregado
scrub in Swedish is skuras, krubba

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