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scrubber

UK/ˈskɹʌbə/US/ˈskɹʌbɚ/

scrubber noun: a person or appliance that cleans floors or similar by scrubbing.

Noun

scrubber (plural scrubbers)

  1. A person or appliance that cleans floors or similar by scrubbing.
  2. A soft and flexible handheld polymer-fiber implement for scrubbing tasks.
  3. A device that removes impurities from gases.
  4. (historical) A machine for washing leather after the tanpit.
  5. (Commonwealth) An animal (especially cattle) that has broken away from the herd and established itself in the bush.
  6. (Australia) Someone who lives in the bush; a wild person, someone only partly assimilated into society.
    • ‘He was a real scrubber that old feller,’ he confided gleefully. ‘No one never got a tag on him before this.’2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 74
  7. (Ireland, UK, slang) A prostitute or a slovenly woman.
    • What did you think, it was happy ever after with a Woodlands Road scrubber in a seaside resort?2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 267
  8. (Ireland, UK, slang) A dirty or unhygienic person.
  9. (video) A horizontal bar allowing the user to set the playback position.

scrubber meaning in Tamil

scrubber in Tamil

தேய்த்துச் சுத்தமாக்குபவர்

Forms of scrubber

pluralscrubbers

Origin of scrubber

From scrub + -er.

Words formed from scrubber

Phrases with scrubber

Words that rhyme with scrubber

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Questions about scrubber

What does scrubber mean?
Scrubber means a person or appliance that cleans floors or similar by scrubbing.
What is scrubber in Tamil?
Scrubber in Tamil is தேய்த்துச் சுத்தமாக்குபவர். See Scrubber meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is scrubber?
Scrubber is a noun.
How do you pronounce scrubber?
Scrubber is pronounced /ˈskɹʌbə/ (UK).
What is the plural of scrubber?
The plural of scrubber is scrubbers.

Words near scrubber in the dictionary

  1. scrubbed
  2. scrubbed down
  3. scrubbed in
  4. scrubbed out
  5. scrubbed up
  6. scrubber
  7. scrubbers
  8. scrubbie
  9. scrubbier
  10. scrubbies
  11. scrubbiest

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: scrubber (page history and authors); scrubber (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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