Scrubber


noun
1.
a person who scrubs.
2.
a device or process for removing pollutants from smoke or gas produced by burning high-sulfur fuels.
3.
a machine or appliance used in scrubbing:
an automatic floor scrubber.
noun
1.
a mongrel, especially a mongrel steer.
2.
a thin or stunted steer.
3.
Australian.

an inhabitant of the bush.
any domestic animal that has run off into the bush and become wild, especially a steer.

noun, British Slang.
1.
a prostitute or promiscuous woman.
noun
1.
a person or thing that scrubs
2.
an apparatus for purifying a gas
3.
(Brit & Austral, derogatory, slang) a promiscuous woman
noun
1.
(Austral) a domestic animal, esp a bullock, that has run wild in the bush

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