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Scraps

noun

1.

Food that is discarded (as from a kitchen). Synonyms: food waste, garbage, refuse.

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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... middle of the day, in the open country, just as the sun beat most fiercely against the old plated lanterns, a bared hand passed beneath the small blinds of yellow canvas, and threw out some scraps of paper that scattered in the wind, and farther off alighted like white butterflies on a field of red ...

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... For a time his attention was absorbed in the fragments of speech he heard. He had a doubt whether all were speaking English. Scraps floated to him, scraps like Pigeon English, like 'nigger' dialect, blurred and mangled distortions. He dared accost no one with questions. The impression the people gave him jarred altogether with his preconceptions of the ...

— When the Sleeper Wakes • Herbert George Wells

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