What is the meaning of scab?

noun

  • Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
  • The crustlike surface of a healing skin lesion.

verb

  • Form a scab.
    • usage: "the wounds will eventually scab"
  • Take the place of work of someone on strike.
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