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scrub-up
[ skruhb-uhp ]
noun
- the act of washing or bathing thoroughly, especially the aseptic washing by doctors, nurses, etc., before a surgical operation.
Word History and Origins
Origin of scrub-up1
Idioms and Phrases
Thoroughly wash one's hands and forearms, as before performing surgery. For example, The residents had to scrub up in case they were called on to assist with the operation . [c. 1900]Example Sentences
We mustnt even waste the time for me to scrub up, and Im taking no chances at all with any non-surgical conditions.
Then, as fortune would have it, the housekeeper sent them in to scrub up the floor behind the clerk's desk.
It takes her a week to scrub up the kitchen, and then one end of it is so dirty she has to begin again.
The least yer can do is ter scrub up, comb yer har an' put on a clean shirt ter-morrer.
So he climbed through the scrub up the mountain-side till he came out upon a grassy slope, two hundred feet above the camp.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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