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scrobble
scrobble
English
Verb
scrobble (third-person singular simple present scrobbles, present participle scrobbling, simple past and past participle scrobbled)
- (transitive, slang) To waylay, kidnap or steal.
- John Masefield
- They've tried to scrobble another clergyman who was walking into Tatchester from Tineton.
- 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..."
- John Masefield
Etymology 2
From the name of the Internet service Audioscrobbler.
Verb
scrobble (third-person singular simple present scrobbles, present participle scrobbling, simple past and past participle scrobbled)
- (Internet slang) To publish one's music-listening habits to the Internet via software, in order to track when and how often certain songs are played.
Noun
scrobble (plural scrobbles)
- A datum or the aggregate data collected by this means.