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Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
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blackleg
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Relating to a scab worker. n. 1 (context uncountable English) fatal cattle disease caused by the soil-borne bacteria (taxlink Clostridium chauvoei species noshow=1); symptomatic anthrax 2 (context countable English) A person who takes the place of striking ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Across the road in a secure compound are the buildings that house the mostly out-of-state blacklegs. ▪ Picketing gave way to marches through factories, when workers would chase blacklegs and occasionally kidnap managers. ▪ The ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"swindler," especially in equestrian events, 1771, from black (adj.) + leg (n.), but the exact signification is uncertain.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike [syn: scab , strikebreaker , rat ] v. take the place of work of someone on strike [syn: scab , rat ] [also: blacklegging , blacklegged ]
Wikipedia
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Blackleg or black-legged may refer to:
Usage examples of blackleg.
He had scarcely uttered those words when my friend, going up to him, told him that a dancer was certainly as good as a blackleg, and gave him a violent bow with the flat of his sword on the face.
I wish to so alter it as to put a premium on intelligence and character, and close the jury box against idiots, blacklegs, and people who do not read newspapers.
I was introduced to the blacklegs in your bar-room, and by a scamp who was a habitual lounger here.
He consorted much with blacklegs and such-like because blacklegs were to his taste.
I say again that, if the ring has fallen low, it is not in the main the fault of the men who have done the fighting, but it lies at the door of the vile crew of ring-side parasites and ruffians, who are as far below the honest pugilist as the welsher and the blackleg are below the noble racehorse which serves them as a pretext for their villainies.
States, and means rather a political blackleg than a political patriot.
Rudolf, meet Saint Montague Hayward, chairman of the Royal Commission for Investigating the Incidence of Psittacosis among Dromedaries, and managing editor of The Blunt Instrument, canonized this very day for assassinating a reader who thought a blackleg was something to do with varicose veins.
I could see that blacklegged horse cropping grass out there, but I couldn't see his legs at all, only his body, looking like one of those white rocks.