scrap
/ˈskɹæp/ noun B2- A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion. · I found a scrap of cloth to patch the hole.
- The smallest amount. · I don't care a scrap.
- Leftover food. · Give the scraps to the animals: any meat to the dogs, and the rest to the hogs.
- The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat. · pork scraps
- Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk. · That car isn't good for anything but scrap.
- Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, such as sweepings left over from handling higher grades.
- A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated with the Sureno gang.
Plural scraps
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I will take the five scraps of paper that I now hold as bonds, with your signature alone, and here is a receipt in full for the six millions between us.
I still retain in my scrap-book numerous clippings and extracts bearing upon the case.
Shere Khan was always crossing his path in the jungle, for as Akela grew older and feebler the lame tiger had come to be great friends with the younger wolves of the Pack, who followed him for scraps, a thing Akela would never have allowed if he had dared to push his authority to the proper bounds.
Akela the Lone Wolf lay by the side of his rock as a sign that the leadership of the Pack was open, and Shere Khan with his following of scrap-fed wolves walked to and fro openly being flattered.
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