Clues for the word "SCAB"
We've had 269 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 799 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on January 12, 2026.
Definition of scab
- n. - An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part.
- n. - The itch in man; also, the scurvy.
- n. - The mange, esp. when it appears on sheep.
- n. - A disease of potatoes producing pits in their surface, caused by a minute fungus (Tiburcinia Scabies).
- n. - A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
- n. - A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
- n. - A nickname for a workman who engages for lower wages than are fixed by the trades unions; also, for one who takes the place of a workman on a strike.
- v. i. - To become covered with a scab; as, the wound scabbed over.
Referring Clues
- Sign of healing
- Striker's cry
- Picket line pariah
- Healing sign
- Fink
- Object of union protest
- Sore point?
- Wound cover
- One who's not out on called strikes
- One who crosses the line?
- Union foe
- Picket line ignorer
- Picketer's replacement
- Line crosser?
- Picket line crosser
- Object of a union's anger
- One crossing a line
- Strikebreaker
- Evidence of injury
- Strike defier
- Wound protector
- Unpopular worker
- Cover for a wound
- Walkout defier
- Worker during a walkout
- Healing formation
- Very unpopular worker
- Healing feature
- Owie covering
- Union flouter
- Scrape evidence
- Picket line defier
- Hardly a striking individual
- Healing crust
- Certain line-crosser
- Line crosser of a sort
- Hardly a striking individual?
- Wound reminder
- Skin wound covering
- Striker's bane
- Line crosser
- Striker's substitute
- Striker's enemy
- Labor pain?
- Picketer's bane
- Labor union foe
- Boo-boo memento
- Striker's antithesis
- Nonstriker
- Wound topper
- Picketer provoker
- Formation over a wound
- Fill-in for a striking worker
- One crossing through the strike zone?
- Sore protection
- Wound formation
- Certain line crosser
- Wound covering
- It may be a sore spot
- Picket-line crosser
- Natural healing aid
- Sore souvenir
- Protestor's replacement
- Wound healing element
- Strike breaker
- Union defier
- Strike-breaker
- Beginning of healing, sometimes
- Nonstriking worker
- Scratch memento
- It shows where a cut was made
- Striker's anathema
- Indication of healing
- Evidence of healing
- Wound remnant
- Striker's nemesis
- One who crosses the line
- One objecting to a called strike
- One who works during a strike
- Management ally of a sort
- One who works despite a strike
- Scrape aftermath
- Strike spurner
- Union deserter, maybe
- Eschar
- Nature's band-aid
- Object of a unions anger
- What kids are taught not to pick
- Picket provoker
- Person who crosses the line
- Union bête noire
- Union's bane
- Union opponent
- Persona non grata at a strike
- Union underminer
- Nature's bandage
- Striker's foe
- Natural wound cover
- Cut coverer
- Person who crosses the line?
- Antiunionist
- Picketer's nemesis
- Walkout walk-in
- Union enemy
- Boo-boo evidence
- Evidence of bodily harm
- Abrasion aftermath
- Union-busting type
- One who's not striking
- Injury result
- Nonunion worker in a union job
- Target of union hatred
- Strike ignorer
- Cut covering
- Boo-boo reminder
- Part of the healing process
- Picketer's pariah
- Healing cover
- Striker's adversary
- Part 2 of a Labour Day quotation
- Union buster
- Natural bandage
- Picketer's foe
- Accident reminder
- Skinned-knee sight
- Picket line jumper
- Coagulated wound
- Natural cut protection
- Nature's cut cover
- One who has crossed the line?
- Labour pariah
- Striker's foil
- Wound, after a few days
- Feature of a healing cut
- Line breaker
- Striker's Benedict Arnold
- It may cover a sore spot
- Strikebreaker, slangily
- Scrape reminder
- Scraped-knee covering
- Wound mark
- Leave a mark
- Wound's protective cover
- Protective wound cover
- Persona non grata, to a striker
- It forms over a healing abrasion
- Wound protection
- One crossing the line?
- Striker's fill-in
- Persona non grata to a striker [1]
- Strike fear?
- Picket line violator
- Crusty formation
- Wound coverer
- Union betrayer
- Striker's replacement
- Striker's villain
- Union pariah
- Boo-boo cover
- Wound's covering
- It covers a wound
- Wound's cover
- Scrape covering
- A kid may pick it
- Cover for a healing cut
- Blackleg takes taxi after start of strike
- Road rash reminder
- Wound's crust
- Strike-line crosser
- Scraped elbow souvenir
- Sore covering
- Non-striking worker
- Rough scrape covering
- Crust-like surface over a wound
- Crust that forms on a healing skin wound
- Blackleg
- Insultingly, one declining to earn a crust?
- Evidence of healing wound - crosser of picket line
- Half a purple flower unpopular with union
- No striking evidence of injury?
- Wound crust
- Strike-breaker and poet concealing weapon
- Dried crust on wound
- He continues to work for Southern Transport
- Dried crust on sore
- Disease unwanted by gardener in his cabbages
- Bad thing to pick
- Crust of congealed blood
- Crust formed over wound
- Someone who's not out for a crust
- Derogatory term for a strike-breaker
- With a thousand out, is for returning to work?
- Automated payment method set up for unpopular worker
- French exams rising to form crust ...
- Non-striker backs up, but striker's fifth out
- He crosses the line
- Wound encrustation
- Graze crust
- Sore crust
- One disparaged for working for a crust?
- The blood has dried, so I go to work
- Crust sliced carefully, accompanying butter for starters
- Strike-breaker finally arrives by taxi
- Blackleg takes second taxi
- Blackleg arrives in second taxi
- Strike-breaker, blackleg
- Blackleg, strike-breaker
- One's disparaged for going to work in small taxi
- Strike breaker has shilling for taxi
- Strike-breaker showing evidence of a scuffle?
- Blackleg showing sign of injury
- One regarded with contempt in back of Swiss taxi
- Strikebreaker takes notes on flower
- Bradman, Australian cricket star, starts up -- one not out
- Small vehicle, one not supposed to be working
- Crust formed over a wound
- Union concern
- Provider of protective coverage
- It covers a healing cut
- Picketer defier
- Fill-in for a striker
- Healing-cut covering
- Natural wound protection
- Sign of damage artist expunged from sacred symbol
- Worker during a strike
- Temporary cover
- Minor cut covering
- Part of a natural repair process
- Picket line flouter
- Wound marker
- Result of healing
- Strikebreaking worker
- Strike abandoner
- Union member's nemesis
- It covers physical damage caused by small carrier
- Natural cut cover
- Protective crust
- Sign of a wound's healing
- 3-Down concern
- Dried sore
- One who crosses a line
- Natural cover
- Natural Band-Aid?
- Scrape remnant
- Wound up on top?
- Evidence of a recent scrape
- Cut cover
- Natural scrape covering
- Healing indicator
- It may cover a cut
- One who keeps working on wrecked cabs?
- Scrape cover
- Reminder of a scrape
- Heal (over)
- No striking evidence of injury?
- It forms over a wound
- Natural cut covering
- One crossing the line?
- Strike underminer
- Scrape coverer
- Natural Band-Aid
- Person crossing a picket line
- Temporary cover of a sort
- Strikebreaking sort
- One who's crossed a line?
- Not a striking personality?
- Crust (over)
- Protection from an infection
- Covering over a wound
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - January 12, 2026
- LA Times - December 31, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 19, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - December 14, 2025
- New York Times - December 08, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 07, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 28, 2025
- New York Times - November 12, 2025
- New York Times - November 11, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 05, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 03, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 27, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 21, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - October 20, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 19, 2025
- New York Times - October 03, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - September 29, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 24, 2025
- New York Times - September 07, 2025
- LA Times - September 07, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 05, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 04, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 28, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 20, 2025
- Daily American - August 18, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 17, 2025
- LA Times - July 29, 2025
- Your Life Choices - July 21, 2025
- New York Times - July 08, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 06, 2025
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