Usually means: Discarded material for reuse, recycling.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word scrap:

General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. scrap: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. scrap, scrap: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scrap, scrap: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. scrap: Collins English Dictionary
  5. scrap: Vocabulary.com
  6. Scrap, scrap: Wordnik
  7. scrap: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. scrap: Wiktionary
  9. scrap: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. scrap: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. scrap: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. scrap: Dictionary.com
  13. scrap (1), scrap (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. scrap: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Scrap: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Scrap: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. scrap: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. scrap: Rhymezone
  19. scrap: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. scrap: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. scrap: Free Dictionary
  22. scrap: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. scrap: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. scrap: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. SCRAP: Accounting Glossary
  2. scrap: Legal dictionary
  3. Scrap: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SCRAP: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. scrap: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SCRAP: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. scrap: Idioms

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Scrap (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. scrap, scrap, scrap: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. scrap: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  4. Scrap: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Metal Terminology (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See scraping as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
noun:  The smallest amount.
noun:  (usually in the plural) Leftover food.
noun:  The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
noun:  (uncountable) Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
noun:  (UK, in the plural) A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips.
noun:  (uncountable) Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, such as sweepings left over from handling higher grades.
noun:  (ethnic slur, offensive) A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated with the Sureno gang.
noun:  (obsolete) A snare for catching birds.
verb:  (transitive) To discard; to get rid of.
verb:  (transitive, of a project or plan) To stop working on indefinitely.
verb:  (intransitive) To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
verb:  (transitive) To dispose of at a scrapyard.
verb:  (transitive) To make into scrap.
noun:  A fight, tussle, skirmish.
verb:  to fight

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