scab
- Noun. An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
- Noun. (''colloquial or obsolete'') The scabies.
- Noun. The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.
- Noun. Several different diseases of potatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused by ''Streptomyces'' -bacteria. .
- Noun. Short form for common scab, a relatively harmless variety of '''scab''' caused by ''Streptomyces scabies''.
- Noun. (botany) Any one of various more or less destructive fungus diseases attacking cultivated plants, and forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
- Noun. (''founding'') A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
- Noun. A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
- Noun. (slang) A worker who acts against trade union policies, especially a strikebreaker.
- Verb. (intransitive) To get covered by a scab.
- Verb. (intransitive) To act as strikebreaker.
- Verb. (transitive, Australia) To beg (for), cadge, bum.
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