scrobble
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈskɹɒbəl/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒbəl
Etymology 1
1927, in the book The Midnight Folk by John Masefield.
Verb
scrobble (third-person singular simple present scrobbles, present participle scrobbling, simple past and past participle scrobbled)
- (transitive, slang) To waylay, kidnap or steal.
- 1935, John Masefield, The Box of Delights
- They've tried to scrobble another clergyman who was walking into Tatchester from Tineton.
- 1996, Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere (page 73)
- We have no intention of violating their market truce. More of waiting till she has left the market and scrobbling her...
- 1935, John Masefield, The Box of Delights
Etymology 2
From the name of the Internet service Audioscrobbler, probably a nonce coinage unrelated to etymology 1.
Verb
scrobble (third-person singular simple present scrobbles, present participle scrobbling, simple past and past participle scrobbled)
- (Internet slang) To publish one's media consumption habits to the Internet via software, in order to track when and how often certain items are played.
Noun
scrobble (plural scrobbles)
- A datum or the aggregate data collected by this means.
Anagrams
- clobbers, cobbler's, cobblers