Synonyms for blackleg
All synonyms
Noun
1. Rat — A person who takes the place of striking workers
Definitions
- n. 1
A person who takes the place of striking workers.
Related words
- Word family
- blackleggery
Forms
- Plural
- blacklegs → rats, scabs, strikebreakers, scalies…
Example sentences
- rat He hollowed out a mountain only to pull out a rat.
- scab Tom's wound was still weeping and had yet to scab over.
- scalie A scalie is like a furry whose "fursona" is a reptile or amphibian.
- cheat I felt like hitting him when he tried to cheat me.
- swindler She went so far as to say that he was a swindler.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| blackleg | falling | |
| rat | falling | |
| scab | falling | |
| strikebreaker | falling | |
| scalie | steady | |
| cheat | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- leg1, rat1
- 4 letters
- scab1
- 5 letters
- cheat1
- 6 letters
- scalie
- 8 letters
- swindler3
- 11 letters
- blacklegger
- 13 letters
- strikebreaker3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (swindler3 = 3 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- charbon symptomatique