ˌWormwood ˈScrubsn (also The Scrubs informal) 2.n a prison in West London. In 1998, prisoners there claimed that some of the prison officers treated them in an unfair, sometimes violent way, and the government set up an inquiry to discover the truth. 苦艾丛监狱〔位于伦敦西部,1998年监狱囚犯声称受狱警虐待,政府对此展开了调查〕