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scrap

/skɹæp/ · noun

Meaning

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

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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