scrubs
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- noun
- /skrʌbz/
- Specialized
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bata quirúrgica
- All the nurses wore matching scrubs to maintain a professional appearance in the hospital.
We're on a wing in scrubs, on the freeze.
- We're on a wing in scrubs, on the freeze.
- His wife had made me short shorts made of the scrubs material and he wanted me to wear them.
- She grabbed on to me and tore the pocket off the scrubs.
- But I was in scrubs and it's just an horrible, horrible fucking place.
- So he took the five stretch and that's when I met him in the scrubs.
- Next, from AP vinegar, when the scrub machine gives you scrubs with holes, you would A, exchange them for better scrubs or B, suture them with Otacron.
- So she wears scrubs, but then she has the scrub hat that she wears and she's like, can you help me find like solid color scrub hats?
- And we said we wanted to get scrubs and we wanted to perpetrate scrub fraud, right?
- If somebody gave birth to a boy or it would be, you know, like the scrubs, something like that.
- But then once I got back there they say like cool, now you've been lifed off, now you're going straight to one with scrubs.
Examples
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I'm pretty tired right now so going to get out of these scrubs and have a nice sleep.
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So she wears scrubs, but then she has the scrub hat that she wears and she's like, can you help me find like solid color scrub hats?
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For years nurses and dentists and doctors were forced to wear scratchy I'll fitting scrubs almost burlap.
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The surgeon changed into clean scrubs before entering the operating room.
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After his shift, he quickly changed out of his scrubs to head home and relax.
Synonyms
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A protective garment worn by doctors and nurses during operations to keep germs away
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A protective garment surgeons wear during operations to keep the area sterile
Antonyms
How Protective
- Specialized
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- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
scrubs = scrub (semi-transparent) = scrub + s
The plural suffix is a transparent grammatical process, but the noun 'scrub' meaning medical garment is a specialized lexical item that may not be predictable from other senses of 'scrub' (e.g., the verb 'to scrub').
Etymology
Scrubs for the clothes doctors and nurses wear comes from the idea of 'scrubbing up' — the verb scrub means 'to wash', and medical staff wash their hands and change into clean clothes before operations, so those simple, clean outfits became known as scrubs.