1. The crustlike surface of a healing skin lesion
   "He was told not to pick at the scab to allow proper healing"
    
2. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
   "The company hired scabs to keep operations running during the union protest";
   - strikebreaker, blackleg [Brit], rat [informal]

1. Form a scab
   "the wounds will eventually scab"
    
2. Take the place of work of someone on strike
   "The company hired scabs to keep operations running during the strike";
   - fink [N. Amer, informal], rat [informal], blackleg [Brit]

Derived forms: scabbing, scabbed, scabs

Type of: heal, mend, solid body substance, work, worker

Part of: cutis, skin, tegument

Encyclopedia: Scab