Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (US black) an unsophisticated individual.

1936		A.E. Duckett ‘Truckin ’round Brooklyn’ in N.Y. Age 1 Aug. 7/1: Some unhip scobe cried out, ‘Oh! you fag’.
1937		A.E. Duckett ‘Truckin ’round Brooklyn’ in N.Y. Age 13 Mar. 7/1: ’Mong other folks we think should be barred...Are the scobes who have nothing to say but ‘too hard’.
2021		L. McInerney Rules of Revelation 370: The ones who were afraid of me, but were angry that they were afraid of me, coz I was only a scobe.

2. (N.Z. prison, also scopie) a novice prison officer.

2001

D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 159/1: scobie(also scopie) n. a newly-trained prison officer.