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scab
noun- a strike-breaker US, 1777
From earlier usage as “a generally contemptible person”. - They’re the ones who make scabs out of you. — Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, p. 197, 1947
- It’s just the thugs and the scabs fooling you[.] — Woody Guthrie, Coming into Los Angeles, 1961
- On the first day of the fifteenth week, skulls were split at the mill gates when truckloads of imported and local scabs staged a lightning assault on depleted picket lines. — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 282, 1961
- That wasn’t violence, Edith. That was education. It was the only way to teach those fink scabs a lesson! — Eugene Boe (Compiler), The Wit & Wisdom of Archie Bunker, p. 29, 1971
- As the baker’s strike began, I was allocated a few loaves of (scab) bread, which I kept for the old and the infirm[.] — Mark Steel, Reasons to be Cheerful, p. 55, 2001
- a thief UK, 2003
Noted as teen slang by Susie Dent, The Language Report, 2003. - a stingy person; a miser AUSTRALIA
- At first I reckoned the lack of food in the fridge was ’cause some cheapskate scabs were not putting into the kitty. — Kathy Lette, Girls’ Night Out, p. 41, 1987
- [S]he is such a scab, she won’t even share the Turkish Delights. — Kylie Mole (Maryanne Fahey), My Diary, p. 104, 1988
- a citizens’ band radio operator US
A derisive term used by purist shortwave radio operators. - — Warren Smith, Warren’s Smith’s Authentic Dictionary of CB, p. 61, 1976
- in western Canada, a saddle CANADA
- Throw down that cayuse and cinch my scab down good and hard on him, and I’ll be out. — Richmond Hobson, Grass Beyond the Mountains, p. 89, 1951
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