Usually means: Damage surface with sharp object.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. scratch: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. scratch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scratch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. scratch: Collins English Dictionary
  5. scratch: Vocabulary.com
  6. Scratch, scratch: Wordnik
  7. scratch: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Scratch, scratch: Wiktionary
  9. scratch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. scratch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. scratch: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. scratch: Dictionary.com
  13. Scratch, scratch (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. scratch: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Scratch (Kaela Kimura album), Scratch (Kenny Barron album), Scratch (disambiguation), Scratch (horse), Scratch (magazine), Scratch (musician), Scratch (programming language), Scratch (soundtrack), Scratch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Scratch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. scratch: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. scratch: Rhymezone
  19. scratch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. scratch: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Scratch, Scratch: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. scratch: Free Dictionary
  23. scratch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. scratch: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. scratch: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Jazz Humor (No longer online)
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. scratch: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. scratch: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Scratch (hacker jargon), scratch: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. scratch: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. SCRATCH: Acronym Finder
  3. scratch: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scratch: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. scratch, scratch, scratch, scratch, scratch, scratch, scratch, scratch: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. Scratch: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. Scratch: 1960's Slang
  5. the scratch: Urban Dictionary
  6. Scratch: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)
  3. scratch: Golfer's Dictionary
  4. Scratch: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Diamonds (No longer online)
  3. scratch: Coin Collecting
  4. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws, etc.
verb:  To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation; to cause itching.
verb:  To irritate someone's skin with one's unshaven beard when kissing.
verb:  To mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a scratch (noun).
verb:  (of a surface) to get such scratches
verb:  To cross out, strike out, strike through some text on a page.
verb:  Hence, to remove, ignore, or delete.
verb:  (music) To produce a distinctive sound on a turntable by moving a vinyl record back and forth while manipulating the crossfader (see also scratching).
verb:  (billiards) To commit a foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
verb:  (billiards, dated, US) To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game.
verb:  To write or draw hastily or awkwardly; scrawl.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To dig or excavate with the claws.
verb:  To dig or scrape (a person's skin) with claws or fingernails in self-defense or with the intention to injure.
verb:  (swimming, athletics) To announce one's non-participation in a race or sports event part of a larger sports meeting that one was previously signed up for, usually in lieu of another event at the same meeting.
noun:  A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching.
noun:  An act of scratching the skin to alleviate an itch or irritation.
noun:  (sports)
noun:  A starting line (originally and simply, a line scratched in the ground), as in boxing.
noun:  A technical error of touching or surpassing the starting mark prior to the official start signal in the sporting events of long jump, discus, hammer throw, shot put, and similar. Originally the starting mark was a scratch on the ground but is now a board or precisely indicated mark.
noun:  (cycling) The last riders to depart in a handicap race.
noun:  (billiards) An aberration.
noun:  A foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
noun:  (archaic, US, slang) A shot which scores by chance and not as intended by the player; a fluke.
noun:  (horse racing) A horse withdrawn from a race prior to the start.
noun:  (meiosis) A minor injury.
noun:  (slang) Money.
noun:  A feed, usually a mixture of a few common grains, given to chickens.
noun:  (in the plural) Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy.
noun:  (now historical) A scratch wig.
noun:  (music) A genre of Virgin Islander music, better known as fungi.
noun:  Scrawled or illegible handwriting; chicken scratch.
noun:  Nothing, zero. Used especially in card games or sports, but also expressions like "from scatch".
adjective:  For or consisting of preliminary or tentative, incomplete, etc. work.
adjective:  Hastily assembled, arranged or constructed, from whatever materials are to hand, with little or no preparation
adjective:  (computing) Relating to a scratchpad, a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for testing or temporary use.
adjective:  (sports) (of a player) Of a standard high enough to play without a handicap, i.e. to compete without the benefit of a variation in scoring based on ability.
noun:  (programming) A free educational visual programming language developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab.
noun:  A surname.

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