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scrubbers

scrubbers is the plural of scrubber.

Meaning of scrubber

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

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Phrases with scrubbers

Questions about scrubbers

What is scrubbers the plural of?
Scrubbers is the plural of scrubber.

Words near scrubbers in the dictionary

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

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