scrap

Plural: scraps

Noun

• a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
• worthless material that is to be disposed of
• a small piece of something that is left over after the rest has been used
  • "she jotted it on a scrap of paper"
  • "there was not a scrap left"
• the act of fighting; any contest or struggle
  • "the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap"
• A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
• A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
• The smallest amount.
• Leftover food.
• The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
• Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
• A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips.
• Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, such as sweepings left over from handling higher grades.
• A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated with the Sureno gang.
• A snare for catching birds.
• A fight, tussle, skirmish.

Verb

Verb Forms: scrapped, scrapping, scraps

• To discard something as useless or unwanted.
• dispose of (something useless or old)
  • "scrap your old computer"
• have a disagreement over something
  • "These two fellows are always scrapping over something"
• make into scrap or refuse
  • "scrap the old airplane and sell the parts"
• To discard; to get rid of.
• To stop working on indefinitely.
• To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
• To dispose of at a scrapyard.
• To make into scrap.
• to fight

Examples

• Give the scraps to the animals: any meat to the dogs, and the rest to the hogs.
• I don't care a scrap.
• I found a scrap of cloth to patch the hole.
• Sometimes you have to SCRAP your entire rack to get better tiles.
• That car isn't good for anything but scrap.
• We got in a little scrap over who should pay the bill.

Synonyms

altercate, argufy, bit, chip, combat, dispute, fight, fighting, flake, fleck, junk, quarrel, rubbish, trash, ace, atom, aught, bissel, chunk, clip, crap, crumb, crumbling, cultch, cutting, dab, damn, dash, debris, diddly, dot, dreck, drek, drop, dusting, fleak, flip, flyspeck, fragment, garbage, glimpse, glint, grain, gribble, gubbins, halfpennyworth, hint, hunk, inch, iota, jot, leftover, lick, litter, lump, mammock, mite, modicum, molecule, morceau, morsel, mote, ooch, ort, ounce, particle, pelf, pennyworth, piece, piece of crap, piece of garbage, piece of shit, piece of trash, piecemeal, pile of crap, pile of shit, pinch, portion, refuse, roughage, scantling, scent, scintilla, scooch, scrap, scraplet, scratching, scruple, semblance, service item, shit, shred, skerrick, skoosh, skosh, slice, sliver, smattering, smidge, smidgen, smidget, smidgy, smitch, smithereen, snead, snippet, soupçon, spark, spatter, speck, speckle, spot, sprinkle, sprinkling, steck, strain, stuff, tad, tidbit, tidge, tittle, toddick, touch, trace, trifle, tuppence worth, waste, whiff, whit

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