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scab
verb- to act as a strike-breaker US, 1806
- A mine clerk named Herbert Smith, scabbing in a Colorado Fuel and Iron mine, was brutally beaten near Trinidad. — Russ Kick, Everything You Know is Wrong, p. 256, 2002
- Students earned the enmity of the working class by scabbing the jobs of strikers just for fun. — Thomas Frank, What’s the Matter with Kansas?, p. 204, 2004
- to search for a possible sex-partner US
Hawaiian youth usage. - — Douglas Simonson, Pidgin to da Max Hana Hou, 1982
- to cadge something AUSTRALIA
- In the carry basket was some clothes he said he scabbed from Mrs Musworth at the pub. — Tim Winton, That eye, the sky, p. 69, 1986
- in pinball, to obtain a result through luck, not skill US
- — Bobbye Claire Natkin and Steve Kirk, All About Pinball, p. 116, 1977
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