- a variation of scrap heap.
scrapheap
Britishnoun
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a pile of discarded material
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(of people or things) having outlived their usefulness
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I had consigned Luton to the scrapheap months ago but their season has suddenly become interesting.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2024
Union General Secretary Mick Lynch said rail workers would not accept “being thrown on the scrapheap after being praised as heroes during COVID,” and warned there could be more strikes over the summer.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 25, 2022
The early July acquisitions of two relievers off the scrapheap — sidearm-throwing left-hander T.J.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2021
They had to move fast, they decided — or The Last Light might end up on Magic Leap’s scrapheap.
From The Verge ● Jul. 6, 2020
Didn't quite finish him, you understand, but left him on the scrapheap, just totterin' around and stavin' off an obituary item by bein' mighty careful.
From Shorty McCabe on the Job by Sewell Ford
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