a small piece or portion; fragment: a scrap of paper.
scraps,
bits or pieces of food, especially of leftover or discarded food.
the remains of animal fat after the oil has been tried out.
a detached piece of something written or printed: scraps of poetry.
an old, discarded, or rejected item or substance for use in reprocessing or as raw material, as old metal that can be melted and reworked.
chips, cuttings, fragments, or other small pieces of raw material removed, cut away, flaked off, etc., in the process of making or manufacturing an item.
adjective
consisting of scraps or fragments.
existing in the form of fragments or remnants of use only for reworking, as metal.
discarded or left over.
verb (used with object),scrapped,scrap·ping.
to make into scraps or scrap; break up: to scrap old cars.
to discard as useless, worthless, or ineffective: He urged that we scrap the old method of teaching mathematics.
Origin of scrap
1
1350–1400;Middle Englishscrappe (noun) < Old Norseskrap, derivative of skrapa to scrape
Related formsscrap·ping·ly, adverb
scrap
2
[skrap]Informal.
noun
a fight or quarrel: She got into a scrap with her in-laws.
"small piece," late 14c., from Old Norse skrap "scraps, trifles," from skrapa "to scrape, scratch, cut" (see scrape (v.)). Meaning "remains of metal produced after rolling or casting" is from 1790. Scrap iron first recorded 1794.
n.2
"fight," 1846, possibly a variant of scrape (n.1) on the notion of "an abrasive encounter." Weekley and OED suggest obsolete colloquial scrap "scheme, villainy, vile intention" (1670s).
