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scrap

Pronunciation: /ˈskɹæp/

The English word “scrap” has 16 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
  2. The smallest amount.
  3. Leftover food.
  4. The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
  5. Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
  6. A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips.
  7. Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, such as sweepings left over from handling higher grades.
  8. A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated with the Sureno gang.
  9. A snare for catching birds.
  10. A fight, tussle, skirmish.

verb

  1. To discard; to get rid of.
  2. To stop working on (a project or plan) indefinitely.
  3. To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
  4. To dispose of at a scrapyard.
  5. To make into scrap.
  6. to fight

Etymology

From Middle English scrappe, from Old Norse skrap, from skrapa (“to scrape, scratch”), from Proto-Germanic *skrapōną, *skrepaną (“to scrape, scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *skreb-, *skrep- (“to engrave”). Cf. Swedish skräp (“garbage”).

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