scrubber

noun9

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. •
   (slang, offensive) A prostitute or a slovenly woman.

   • What did you think, it was happy ever after with a Woodlands Road scrubber in a seaside resort? — 2022
5. •
   (UK, slang) A dirty or unhygienic person.
6. •
   A horizontal bar allowing the user to set the playback position.
7. •
   (Commonwealth) An animal (especially cattle) that has broken away from the herd and established itself in the bush.
8. •
   (Australia) Someone 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
9. •
   (historical) A machine for washing leather after the tanpit.