scrap

Meaning

1. A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
2. A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
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. (obsolete) A snare for catching birds.

bit

broken piece

waste material

manufacturing scrap

scrap metal

small piece

waste matter

piece of cloth

relique

toss away

very small quantity

make null and void

tattered clothes

supersession

tag end

reject as defective

statute title

scrap material

leftover bits and pieces

press residues

tank waste

production waste

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/skɹæp/

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”).

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