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noun
A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Synonyms: scraplet, snippet, bit, chip, chunk, tranche, clip, crumb, crumbling, cutting, flake, fleak, fragment, hunk, lump, mammock, ort, piece, piecemeal, portion, scrap, slice, snead, steck
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
The smallest amount.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Synonyms: scraplet, snippet, bit, chip, chunk, tranche, clip, crumb, crumbling, cutting, flake, fleak, fragment, hunk, lump, mammock, ort, piece, piecemeal, portion, scrap, slice, snead, steck, jot, ace, atom, thought, atomy, aught, bissel, glimpse, dab, damn, dash, diddly, glint, dot, spatter, drop, dusting, fleck, glimmer, hint, flip, flyspeck, grain, halfpennyworth, inch, iota, lick, mite, modicum, molecule, morceau, morsel, mote, ooch, ounce, particle, pennyworth, pinch, relish, scantling, semblance, scent, scintilla, scooch, scruple, shred, skerrick, skoosh, skosh, sliver, smattering, smidge, smidgen, smidget, smidgy, smitch, smithereen, soupçon, spark, speck, speckle, spot, sprinkle, sprinkling, strain, tad, tidbit, tidge, tinge, tittle, toddick, touch, trace, trifle, tuppence worth, vestige, whiff, whit
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Leftover food.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, plural-normally, uncountable
Synonyms: gubbins, leftover, ort
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Synonyms: cultch, crap, debris, dreck, drek, garbage, gash, junk, litter, pelf, piece of crap, piece of garbage, piece of shit, pile of crap, pile of shit, piece of trash, rubbish, refuse, roughage, service item, shit, stuff, trash, waste
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, in-plural, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: gribble, scratching
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, such as sweepings left over from handling higher grades.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: trash
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated with the Sureno gang.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, ethnic, offensive, slur, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A snare for catching birds.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A fight, tussle, skirmish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To discard; to get rid of.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To stop working on (a project or plan) indefinitely.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: abort, cancel, mothball
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To dispose of at a scrapyard.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To make into scrap.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
to fight
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the act of fighting; any contest or struggle
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: fight, fighting, combat
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: conflict, struggle, battle
Narrower terms: gunfight, gunplay, shootout, brush, clash, encounter, skirmish, close-quarter fighting, dogfight, fencing, in-fighting, set-to, shock, impact, hassle, scuffle, tussle, rough-and-tumble, duel, affaire d'honneur, fistfight, fisticuffs, slugfest, battering, banging, beating, whipping, affray, disturbance, fray, ruffle, brawl, free-for-all, knife fight, snickersnee, cut-and-thrust, rumble, gang fight, single combat
noun
a small piece of something that is left over after the rest has been used
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: piece
noun
a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: bit, chip, flake, fleck
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fragment
Narrower terms: matchwood, scale, scurf, exfoliation, splinter, sliver
noun
worthless material that is to be disposed of
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: rubbish, trash
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product
Narrower terms: scrap metal, debris, dust, junk, rubble, detritus, litter
verb
make into scrap or refuse
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: convert
verb
have a disagreement over something
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: quarrel, dispute, argufy, altercate
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: argue, contend, debate, fence
Narrower terms: brawl, wrangle, spat, polemize, polemise, polemicize, polemicise, fall out
verb
dispose of (something useless or old)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: trash, junk
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: discard, fling, toss, toss out, toss away, chuck out, cast aside, dispose, throw out, cast out, throw away, cast away, put away
History
From Middle English scrappe, from Old Norse skrap, from skrapa (“to scrape, scratch”), from Proto-Germanic *skrapōną, *skrepaną (“to scrape, scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *skreb-, *skrep- (“to engrave”). Cf. Swedish skräp (“garbage”).
Perhaps from the obsolete colloquial meaning "sinister plot, scheme, villainy", or a dialectal variant of scrape.
Across languages
133 source translations are retained for this English entry.
