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scabs

n. (plural of scab English)

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Scabs (Hell on Wheels)

"Scabs" is the fourth episode of the second season of the American television drama series Hell on Wheels, which aired on September 2, 2012 on AMC. The fourteenth episode of the series is written by Catherine Hardwicke and directed by Chris Mundy. In the episode, the Sioux torture a railroad worker, causing the crews to strike. Cullen ( Anson Mount) telegraphs for replacement workers (" scabs"), forcing the crews to band together and save their jobs. Eva ( Robin McLeavy) tells both Elam ( Common) and Toole (Duncan Ollerenshaw) that she is pregnant with Elam's baby.

Scabs

Scabs might refer to:

  • Scabs (musician), drummer for Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13
  • Derogatory nickname for strikebreaker

Usage examples of "scabs".

A small number of Scabs had become Forest People over the years, but it was the unspoken practice of the Forest Guard to discourage Horde defections.

The intense pain of moisture on their diseased flesh was enough to fill the Scabs with a deep revulsion for the lakes, and Qurong, their leader, had sworn to destroy the waters when he conquered the much-coveted resources of the forest lands.

The Scabs, hardly used to such wholesale retreat, paused, apparently confused by the sudden turn of events.

Horses reared and Scabs screamed and the dead piled high where they fell.

The Forest Guard knew it well and could play with a dozen Scabs under the right circumstances.

They could have killed even more Scabs with the arrows that had just arrived, but the Forest Guard seemed to have forgotten those.

But it was already fifty yards wide, too many Scabs to cut through with fewer than two hundred men.

Public executions involved drowning the offender in pools of gray water, a prospect that instilled more fear in the Scabs than any other threat of death.

Teeleh had always wanted to be Elyon, and now he would make sure that in the minds of these Scabs, he was.

But as far as he could the Scabs were slowly loading down their carts and horses.

He averted his eyes and walked up the bank, ignoring the Scabs and Council members who watched him.

Above him, countless Scabs were watching the water for signs of his emergence, but here in this fluid he was momentarily safe.

Though Zoster was the only one armed, the trio of scabs boldly led their little expedition through a tangle of feral trails, much-aided by their satellite surveillance maps and GPS locators.

The two scabs were hustled front and center as the locals fed a roaring bonfire.

I make this challenge to all my fellow scabs, those who are down with the Zombie and those who dis him, those who frown on him and those who kiss him.