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Wash with elbow grease (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

scrub

'wash with elbow grease' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

This is the entire clue.

(Other definitions for scrub that I've seen before include "insignificant type" , "Vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes" , "Wash the stunted shrub?" , "Brush, in two senses" , "something in the garden?" .)

I've seen this clue in The New York Times.
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