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scrubs in

scrubs in is the third-person singular simple present indicative of scrub in.

Meaning of scrub in

Verb

scrub in (third-person singular simple present scrubs in, present participle scrubbing in, simple past and past participle scrubbed in)

  1. To thoroughly wash one's hands and forearms in preparation for performing a surgery.
    • There were no booties to wear over their shoes, and they wore scrub caps on their heads only if they were going to scrub in for a procedure. When you scrubbed in for surgery you couldn't touch anything after you finished scrubbing.2007 September 11, Mary Lou Parks, "O Lord Have Mercy!": Finding Our Way As Student Nurses in the 1950s, Dog Ear Publishing, →ISBN, →OL, page 83
    Synonyms:
    scrub up
  2. To break in new racing tires by doing a few gentle laps on them, with the resulting heat serving to remove factory coatings and provide better grip.
    Synonyms:
    scrub, scuff

Questions about scrubs in

What is scrubs in the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Scrubs in is the third-person singular simple present indicative of scrub in.

Words near scrubs in in the dictionary

  1. scrubmen
  2. scrubout
  3. scrubouts
  4. scrubs
  5. scrubs down
  6. scrubs in
  7. scrubs out
  8. scrubs up
  9. scrubster
  10. scrubstone
  11. scrubtit

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scrubs in (page history and authors); scrub in (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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