SCRIMSHANK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scrimshank mean? 

• SCRIMSHANK (verb)
  The verb SCRIMSHANK has 1 sense:

1. British military language: avoid work

  Familiarity information: SCRIMSHANK used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCRIMSHANK (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they scrimshank    ... he / she / it scrimshanks   
Past simple: scrimshanked   
Past participle: scrimshanked   
-ing form: scrimshanking   

Sense 1

Meaning:

British military language: avoid work

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "scrimshank" is one way to...):

fiddle; goldbrick; shirk; shrink from (avoid (one's assigned duties))

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

scrimshanker (a shirker)