scrub

Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.

How solitary, how scrub, does this town look!

No little scrub joint shall come on my board.

A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant.

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.

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.

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.

One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.

A sorry scrub, said Mr. High-mind.

We should go there in as proper a manner possible; nor altogether like the scrubs about us.

One who is incompetent or unable to complete easy tasks.

Wow, she really scored 0? What a scrub!

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 […]

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 brightening

to scrub a floor

to scrub your fingernails

To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour

To be diligent and penurious

to scrub hard for a living

To call off a scheduled event; to cancel.

Engineers had to scrub the satellite launch due to bad weather.

To eliminate or to correct data from a set of records to bring it inline with other similar datasets

The street segment data from the National Post Office will need to be scrubbed before it can be integrated into our system.