scab
IPA: skˈæb
noun
- An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
- (colloquial or obsolete) The scabies.
- The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.
- (uncountable) Any of several different diseases of potatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused by streptomyces bacteria (but formerly believed to be caused by a fungus).
- Common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by Streptomyces scabies.
- (phytopathology) Any one of various more or less destructive fungal diseases that attack cultivated plants, forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
- (founding) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
- A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
- (derogatory, slang) A worker who acts against trade union policies; any picket crosser (strikebreaker), and especially one with devotion to union busting.
verb
- (intransitive) To become covered by a scab or scabs.
- (intransitive) To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin.
- (transitive) To remove part of a surface (from).
- (intransitive) To act as a strikebreaker.
- (transitive, UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal) To beg (for), to cadge or bum.
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Examples of "scab" in Sentences
- Scab lesions look greasy and oily.
- There'll be a scab for a little while.
- If you pick a scab it becomes infected.
- Susceptible to common scab and silver scurf.
- Casey was staunchly pro union and was no scab.
- The Foxwhelp is prone to the disease apple scab.
- Pecan scab is the deadliest disease of the pecan.
- The last paragraph of the Scab section begins with...
- The next scab laborer that walked across the bridge was beaten to death.
- The next memory I have is myself being covered in scabs from the chicken pox.
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