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scorps

scorps is the plural of scorp.

Meaning of scorp

Noun (1)

scorp (plural scorps)

  1. (dated, slang) A resident of Gibraltar.

Noun (2)

scorp (plural scorps)

  1. A woodworking tool for roughing out concave shapes such as bowls and spoons.

Noun capitalized: Scorps

Scorps pl (plural only)

  1. (colloquial, plural, plural-only) Scorpions, a German rock band founded in 1965.
    • You remember the heshers. Those guys who hung out in the back corner of the high-school parking lot, listening to the Scorps on the stereo in their souped-up Chevy Nova with the mag wheels and dual overhead cams.1994, SPIN, volume 9, number 12, page 30
  2. (colloquial, plural, plural-only) The South Australian Scorpions, a cricket team.

Origin of scorps

Shortening.

Questions about scorps

What does scorps mean?
Scorps means scorpions, a German rock band founded in 1965.
What is scorps the plural of?
Scorps is the plural of scorp.
What part of speech is scorps?
Scorps is a noun.

Words near scorps in the dictionary

  1. scorpioside
  2. scorpiosidol
  3. Scorpius
  4. scorpling
  5. scorplings
  6. scorps
  7. scorpy
  8. scorrendo
  9. scorrevole
  10. Scorrier
  11. Scorriton

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scorps (page history and authors); Scorps (page history and authors); scorp (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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