scrap.
A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
Meaning & usage
A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
I found a scrap of cloth to patch the hole.
A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion. The smallest amount.
I don't care a scrap.
Leftover food.
Give the scraps to the animals: any meat to the dogs, and the rest to the hogs.
The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
That car isn't good for anything but scrap.
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.
Where this word comes from
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”).
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.
Where this word comes from
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”).
A fight, tussle, skirmish.
We got in a little scrap over who should pay the bill.
Where this word comes from
Perhaps from the obsolete colloquial meaning "sinister plot, scheme, villainy", or a dialectal variant of scrape.
to fight
Where this word comes from
Perhaps from the obsolete colloquial meaning "sinister plot, scheme, villainy", or a dialectal variant of scrape.
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