scrubber

plural scrubbers

1. A person or appliance that cleans floors or similar by scrubbing.
2. A soft and flexible handheld polymer-fiber implement for scrubbing tasks.
3. A device that removes impurities from gases.
4. historicalA machine for washing leather after the tanpit.
5. CommonwealthAn animal (especially cattle) that has broken away from the herd and established itself in the bush.
6. AustraliaSomeone who lives in the bush; a wild person, someone only partly assimilated into society.

   ‘He was a real scrubber that old feller,’ he confided gleefully. ‘No one never got a tag on him before this.’

   2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 74

7. IrelandUKslangA prostitute or a slovenly woman.

   What did you think, it was happy ever after with a Woodlands Road scrubber in a seaside resort?

   2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 267

8. IrelandUKslangA dirty or unhygienic person.
9. videoaudioA horizontal bar allowing the user to set the playback position.