scrap

Meaning

Noun

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

Verb

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

Verb

to fight

Synonyms

bit

piece

shred

fragment

junk

fight

waste

rag

quarrel

trash

chip

morsel

scuffle

snatch

rubbish

wisp

brawl

remnant

abolish

wrangle

flake

fleck

patch

crumb

part

squabble

broken piece

throw away

fragments

get rid of

altercate

splinter

tussle

slice

do away with

discard

repeal

dispute

cut

residue

spat

argue

remains

abandon

annulment

reject

bicker

combat

battle

put away

Translations

ferraille

Schrott

ferraglia

chatarra

Fetzen

bout

🔚

Stückchen

morceau

lambeau

Abfall

fragment

bribe

frammento

chiffon

Lumpen

Pronounced as (IPA)

/skɹæp/

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”).