scrap
/skɹæp/ · noun
Meaning
- A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
- (usually in the plural) Leftover food.
- The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
- Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
- (in the plural) A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips.
- A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated with the Norte gang.
- To discard.
- (of a project or plan) To stop working on indefinitely.
- To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
- To dispose of at a scrapyard.
- To make into scrap.
- A fight, tussle, skirmish.
- To fight
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