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Noun: blackleg  'blak,leg
Usage: Brit
  1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
    - scab, strikebreaker, rat [informal]
Verb: blackleg (blacklegged,blacklegging)  'blak,leg
Usage: Brit
  1. Take the place of work of someone on strike
    - fink [N. Amer, informal], scab, rat [informal]

Derived forms: blacklegging, blacklegged, blacklegs

Type of: do work, work, worker

Encyclopedia: Blackleg

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