Keep
Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.
Scrub
Scrub verb - To put an end to (something planned or previously agreed to).
Usage example: the outdoor art project was scrubbed when the organizers found out they needed permission from city hall
Both words in one sentence
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You control two characters, one small, fast, and Immune to Bullets and one large, slow, and decidedly not, and in order to keep the latter alive through the endgame, you need to rapidly circle the former around it and scrub the bullets before they hit it.
Source: Bullet Hell - This type of player can be an extremist Scrub who, rather than complaining that a certain technique is unfair and cheap, decides that the easiest way to keep people from spamming the "cheap" technique is to attack only the players who are using the shunned spam attack.
Source: Griefer -
Family-Unfriendly Death: Keep in mind that the Deku Scrubs are plants, which means they are made of wood, which means that they, and more specifically, Deku Scrub Link, are extremely flammable.
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