Definition of scrubber in US English:

noun

• 1A brush or other object used to clean something.

  Example sentences

  • ‘After you wood burn, use a nylon pot scrubber to get rid of the waxy residue and give the gourd a more professional look.’
  • ‘Whatever that is, I don't have one, so I used a stainless steel scrubber.’
  • ‘Apply products containing an antibacterial agent like tri-closan and/or salicylic acid with a scrubber daily to cleanse and exfoliate hard-to-reach areas.’
  • ‘The spokesman said a street scrubber and vacuum cleaner washes St Patrick's Street and Emmet Place only.’
  • ‘I grumbled as I made my way to where the scrubber and bucket was, I was well aware of its location after using it for so often.’
  • ‘She looked around, and saw a bottle of hotel shampoo, and a brush scrubber.’
  • ‘Avery remained silent and I took it as a sign that our conversation was over with so I made my way out to the hall, where the bucket and scrubber waited for me in a closet.’
  • ‘Then scrub that area with a stiff brush, electric scrubber or very fine steel wool pads to loosen old wax.’
  • ‘Pouring the entire, minute bottle of shampoo onto the floor of the shower, Mya took the scrubber, and scrubbed at the floor.’
  • ‘‘Spray your mat and rub it down with a sponge, terry cloth or plastic scrubber,’ she instructs.’
  • ‘Use it with a puffy body scrubber (those net-like ball things).’
  • ‘‘I was cleaning,’ she fumbled, looking down at the scrubber lying near her feet.’

  1. 1.1 A person who cleans something.
     Example sentences

     • ‘I had a scrubber wash me down for 20 minutes, using scouring pad mittens and a really abrasive paste that helped to remove most of my dead skin.’
  2. 1.2 An apparatus using water or a solution for purifying gases or vapors.
     Example sentences

     • ‘Holding a gas torch in his gloved hand, he burns some excess solder off the machine's scrubber.’
     • ‘Cleaner gas technologies and scrubbers to remove sulphur would reduce emissions to half the UK quality standards by 2005.’
     • ‘If the air is dirty, there must be a missing scrubber on a smokestack or a drainpipe that needs a filter.’
     • ‘Within six months the plant had installed scrubbers in the plant's chimneys.’
     • ‘However, key potential improvements, such a requirement for sulphur scrubbers, have not been properly considered.’
     • ‘The chimneys at these fertiliser plants are fitted with scrubbers to trap these toxins, and all of this noxious material is collected in a solution known as scrubbers liquor.’
     • ‘There are logically three possibilities: a dirty surface of some kind, particle-laden air, as in a scrubber or an air purifier - or possibly, both.’