▸ 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: (uncountable) Any of several different diseases of potatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused by streptomyces bacteria (but formerly believed to be caused by a fungus). ▸ noun: Common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by Streptomyces scabies. ▸ noun: (phytopathology) Any one of various more or less destructive fungal diseases that attack cultivated plants, 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: (derogatory, slang) A worker who acts against trade union policies; any picket crosser (strikebreaker), and especially one with devotion to union busting. ▸ verb: (intransitive) To become covered by a scab or scabs. ▸ verb: (intransitive) To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin. ▸ verb: (transitive) To remove part of a surface (from). ▸ verb: (intransitive) To act as a strikebreaker. ▸ verb: (transitive, UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal) To beg (for), to cadge or bum.
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