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scrobble

scrobble

English

Verb

scrobble (third-person singular simple present scrobbles, present participle scrobbling, simple past and past participle scrobbled)

  1. (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..."

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)

  1. (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)

  1. A datum or the aggregate data collected by this means.

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