scab
skab
- n someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
- n the crustlike surface of a healing skin lesion
- v form a scab
the wounds will eventually scab - v take the place of work of someone on strike
- When that occurs, the body turns on itself like an ornery child who can't resist picking a scab with aftereffects that seem to underlie a wide variety of diseases.
- Most films by the most gifted Americans were present-day dramas that picked at some social scab until, in the last reel, it burst.
- Some are radicalized enough to publicly pick an ancient scab: the idea that science and religion, far from being complementary responses to the unknown, are at utter odds--or, as .