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- noun Plural form of
scab .
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Examples
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What was my muscles good for with no head to run 'em, -- sluggin 'scabs, beatin' up lodgers, an 'crookin' the elbow over a bar.
CHAPTER XXI 2010
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Just to be clear, shooting or stabbing workers for being scabs is wrong, terrible, and criminal.
Matthew Yglesias » Economists for an Employee Free Choice Act 2009
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They brought in scabs and thugs, called in the guard and then,
A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2009
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Bring in scabs, in other words, a worker called out.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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The time from the beginning of the rash to the formation of scabs is about two weeks.
Smallpox Vaccine 2008
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Bring in scabs, in other words, a worker called out.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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They are both covered in scabs and I found blood all over the sheets near my feet, not to mention a small puddle and smeared trail on the bedroom floor.
Another Dollop kittenpie 2007
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They are both covered in scabs and I found blood all over the sheets near my feet, not to mention a small puddle and smeared trail on the bedroom floor.
Archive 2007-09-01 kittenpie 2007
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What was my muscles good for with no head to run 'em, -- sluggin 'scabs, beatin' up lodgers, an 'crookin' the elbow over a bar.
Chapter 21 1913
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Soon, scores of vans and buses filled with replacement workers-what more than 500 locked-out workers call "scabs" - will be shuttled in and out of the gates.
LabourStart 2010
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