Scooby

American  

[skoob-ee] / ˌskub i /

noun

• Scoobies
  plural

1. the character Scooby-Doo from the franchise of the same name.

2. a fan of the Scooby-Doo television series, films, and associated media.

3. (Cockney rhyming slang) clue, concept, idea.

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adjective

1. (often Scooby squad, Scooby gang, etc., used to refer to the group of characters central to the Scooby-Doo franchise, or to a group resembling them.)

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Scoobies
  plural

Example Sentences

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Scooby Scoobies

Authorities tied Scooby to a tree in the front yard before they led the police dog onto the property, according to court documents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2025

On a micro level, the physical monsters Buffy and the Scooby Gang faced during the show’s seven-season run were clever metaphors for universally understood coming-of-age horrors.

From Salon ● Feb. 11, 2025

Scooby Doo, a massive pit monster, was a crowd-pleaser as a lion with an unruly golden mane.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 10, 2024

But if a National Geographic documentary about canine evolution seems too highbrow for your four-legged friend, Scooby Doo might be a perfectly acceptable option as well.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 18, 2024

“When someone pulls the fire alarm, security starts checking all the cameras to figure out what’s going on. Your friend from the tour wasn’t hard to spot. Who are the rest of the Scooby Gang?”

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

Willow, Xander and the rest of the Sunnydale Scoobies discover in the show’s sixth season, the world starts to crumble around them.

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026

As the Scoobies take the slow gondola back down the mountain Matsson flies past in his whirlybird.

From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2023

Kelly will have Zach, and he and the Master will have the Scoobies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2015

Viewers now know that Gus will somehow join with the Scoobies because all these crossed paths have to add up to an alliance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2014

His lessons were more likely to feature axes than arithmetic, but it was his role as a father figure for Buffy and the Scoobies that really stole audiences' hearts.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 2, 2011