scrubs
SaySKRUBZ/skɹʌbz/
- 1The clothes that doctors and nurses wear when they do an operation.
The surgeon changed into clean scrubs before the operation.
During surgery, her scrubs were covered by a gown and gloves.
Note
- 2Plural of scrub. Use it when there is more than one.
The store sells face scrubs that smell like lemons.
After three hard scrubs, the pan was finally clean.
Note
scrubs is a form of scrub
scrub, noun: Low bushes and small trees growing thickly in poor, dry soil, or land covered with them. Full entry
- Forms
- scrubscrubs plural
- Spelling
- scrub → scrubs: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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