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scrap
/skɹæp/
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What does scrap mean?
noun
- A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
- The smallest amount.
- Leftover food.
More meanings (13)
noun
- 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 fight, tussle, skirmish.
- (offensive) A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated with the Sureno gang.
- (obsolete) A snare for catching birds.
verb
- To discard; to get rid of.
- To stop working on (a project or plan) indefinitely.
- To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
- To dispose of at a scrapyard.
- To make into scrap.
- to fight
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IPA pronunciation
/skɹæp/
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Instead, she was a tiny scrap of a woman, with soft pink cheeks, mild blue eyes, and a mouth like a baby’s.
Immediately on coming indoors he had searched over his few belongings, and every scrap of Lucetta’s writing that he possessed was here.
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The architect caught toward him a scrap of paper lying on the table at which they were sitting and sketched his idea.
The official selected from the papers a scrap of newspaper cutting, which he handed across to the cleric, who read it gravely.
I'm now a respectable chap And shine with a virtue resplendent And, therefore, I haven't a scrap Of sympathy with the defendant!