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Scrap   /skræp/   Listen
Scrap

noun
1.
A small fragment of something broken off from the whole.  Synonyms: bit, chip, flake, fleck.
2.
Worthless material that is to be disposed of.  Synonyms: rubbish, trash.
3.
A small piece of something that is left over after the rest has been used.  "There was not a scrap left"
4.
The act of fighting; any contest or struggle.  Synonyms: combat, fight, fighting.  "There was fighting in the streets" , "The unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap"
verb
1.
Dispose of (something useless or old).  Synonyms: junk, trash.  "Junk an old car" , "Scrap your old computer"
2.
Have a disagreement over something.  Synonyms: altercate, argufy, dispute, quarrel.  "These two fellows are always scrapping over something"
3.
Make into scrap or refuse.



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"Scrap" Quotes from Famous Books



... I've not had enjoyment like this since I left Noo York. Bar a scrap with a French sailor at Wapping—an' that warn't much of a picnic neither—I've not had a show fur real pleasure in this dod-rotted Continent, where there ain't no b'ars nor no Injuns, an' wheer nary man goes heeled. Slow there, Judge! Don't you rush this business! I want a show for my money this ...
— Dracula's Guest • Bram Stoker
... Vicar firmly, "not for every scrap of fruit I have in the garden. I don't hold with imprisoning a boy, except as the very ...
— The Vast Abyss - The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam • George Manville Fenn
... never been—I forget what the technical term is. Anyhow, he pretended that the princess had never been his wife except in name, and that the child couldn't possibly be his. The Emperor of Austria stood by his connection, like the royal gentleman he is; used every scrap of influence he possessed to help her. But the duke, who was a Protestant (the princess was of course a Catholic), the duke persuaded all the Protestant States in the Diet to vote in his favour. The Emperor of Austria was powerless, ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) • Various
... Queen Elizabeth's christening cloth, which came into my possession through a Mrs. Goodwin. A scrap of paper which accompanies it gives the ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 68, February 15, 1851 • Various
... Divisions was sent for to take over command of the Battalion, which was in the highest of spirits in spite of all it had come through, full of beans, very proud of themselves and the Colonel, and more than ready for another scrap. ...
— The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry - and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919 • D. D. Ogilvie


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