scab, strikebreaker, blackleg, rat
(noun) someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
fink, scab, rat, blackleg
(verb) take the place of work of someone on strike
Source: WordNet® 3.1
blackleg (countable and uncountable, plural blacklegs)
(countable) A person who takes the place of striking workers; a scab.
Synonyms: scalie, strikebreaker
(countable) A person who cheats in a game; a cheater.
(countable, colloquial) A notorious gambler.
(uncountable, agriculture, veterinary medicine) A fatal cattle disease caused by the soil-borne bacterium Clostridium chauvoei; symptomatic anthrax.
blackleg (third-person singular simple present blacklegs, present participle blacklegging, simple past and past participle blacklegged)
To continue working whilst fellow workers strike.
Source: Wiktionary
Black"leg`, n.
1. A notorious gambler. [Colloq.]
2. A disease among calves and sheep, characterized by a settling of gelatinous matter in the legs, and sometimes in the neck. [Eng.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
4 April 2025
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
