scrub
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9.5
- noun
- /skrʌb/
- Offensive
:
pringado
- In that online game, everyone kept calling him a scrub because he couldn't win a single match.
Now tell me about you said something about Boogie being a scrub.
- Now tell me about you said something about Boogie being a scrub.
- But yeah, as a scrub, not great tan.
Examples
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Your turn, scrub.
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No one wants to lose to a scrub who doesn't even know the basic rules of the game.
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Man, I remember when you was just a little scrub... always trying to follow us around.
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We saw a lot of front runners almost lose to scrub teams this week.
Blog text (4) -
- So why you treatin' me like a scrub?
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You have to remember, you're no scrub.
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What if I'm a loser benchwarmer scrub?
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- You a scrub!
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All these scrubs in here, you know, these short-timers and meatballs, they're like, they're all innocent, right?
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As soon as the players saw his poor skills, they labeled him a scrub and refused to team up with him.
Synonyms
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7.2
A lazy person who others dislike for not working
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8.4
A person who is new and not skilled at games or online groups
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9.9
A person who is new or unimportant and used as an insult
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
2
3.9
A hospital worker who helps the surgeon during surgery by keeping things sterile and handing instruments
- US
1
8.2
A small, bushy pine tree with twisted branches and short needles in pairs that grows in the eastern United States
- Australian
A large ground bird that builds a warm mound of rotting plants to hatch its eggs
- Australian
A tree or tall shrub that has shiny leaves, white fragrant flowers, and hard red wood in Australia
A small tough palm that grows in clumps with spiny leaves in the southern United States
- Specialized
A disease people get when tiny animals called mites bite them that gives fever and a rash
- Specialized
A small evergreen shrub or tree that grows in sandy coastal areas and forms dense thickets
How Skilled
Surface Forms
Etymology
Scrub as an insult is a later slang use and a helpful way to remember it is to think of 'scrubby' low plants that seem small and weak; so a 'scrub' is someone seen as useless or not very good. This shows why the word is used to call someone inept.