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Scooby

proper nounnouncommon in dialogue

Scooby-Doo, a fictional cowardly anthropomorphic dog in a children's cartoon; used to make phrases bringing to mind aspects of that cartoon.

proper noun

  1. 1

    Scooby-Doo, a fictional cowardly anthropomorphic dog in a children's cartoon; used to make phrases bringing to mind aspects of that cartoon.

noun

  1. 1

    slangA clue (insight or understanding).

    I haven't got a fucking Scooby what I'm talking about here.

    You get the average pisshead in a pub sitting around saying "I can do that" but they've got no idea. Not a Scooby.

Forms

plural
Scoobies
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).