scrap

Meanings

Noun

• A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
• 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.
• A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips.
• Loose-leaf tobacco, especially of a grade representing 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.
• A fight, tussle, skirmish.

Verb

• To discard.
• To stop working on indefinitely.
• To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
• To dispose of at a scrapyard.
• To make into scrap.
• to fight

Origin

• Middle English scrappe, from Old Norse skrap, from skrapa, from Proto-Germanic *skrapōną, *skrepaną, from Proto-Indo-European *skreb-, *skrep-
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