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Is scrub a Scrabble word?

Yes, scrub is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 9 points in Scrabble.

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Definition

noun (English)

1. (uncountable) A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant.Examples: "oak scrub"; "I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn."

2. (uncountable) Vegetation judged to be of inferior quality or of little use to humans, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush.

3. (countable, US, stock breeding) One of the common livestock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, especially when inferior in size, etc.; particularly a male animal poorly suited for breeding.

4. (countable, derogatory) One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.Examples: "A sorry scrub, said Mr. High-mind."; "We should go there in as proper a manner possible; nor altogether like the scrubs about us."; "A scrub is a guy that thinks he's fly And is also known as a buster Always talkin' about what he wants And just sits on his broke ass […]"

5. (countable, slang, derogatory) One who is incompetent or unable to complete easy tasks.Examples: "Wow, she really scored 0? What a scrub!"

6. (countable, sports, slang) One not on the first team of players; a substitute.

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brighteningExamples: "to scrub a floor"; "to scrub your fingernails"

2. (intransitive) To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour

3. (intransitive, figuratively) To be diligent and penuriousExamples: "to scrub hard for a living"

4. (transitive) To call off a scheduled event; to cancel.Examples: "Engineers had to scrub the satellite launch due to bad weather."

5. (databases, transitive) To eliminate or to correct data from a set of records to bring it inline with other similar datasetsExamples: "The street segment data from the National Post Office will need to be scrubbed before it can be integrated into our system."

6. (audio) To move a recording tape back and forth with a scrubbing motion to produce a scratching sound, or to do so by a similar use of a control on an editing system.

noun (English)

1. (medicine, in the plural) Clothing worn while performing surgery.Synonyms: surgical gown

2. (by extension, in the plural) Any medical uniform consisting of a short-sleeved shirt and pants (trousers).Examples: "A man dressed as a lab tech, his blue scrubs startlingly pale against the vivid red and black chaos, moved into sight from behind the SUV. He carried an assault rifle."

3. (slang, obsolete) Informal attire or dress code; morning dressExamples: "The third, which was as homely as its name, and which she reserved for scouring the country and such like rough usage in quite private rural life, was her "Scrub.""; "For one of Lucia's quaint ideas was to divide dresses into three classes, "Hightum," "Tightum" and "Scrub.""

Definition source: Wiktionary

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How many Scrabble points is the word "scrub"?

Scrabble
9 points
s1
c3
r1
u1
b3
Words With Friends
12 points
s1
c4
r1
u2
b4

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