scrap¹

(skrăp)

1. A small piece or bit; a fragment.

2. scraps Leftover bits of food.

3. Discarded waste material, especially metal suitable for reprocessing.

4. scraps Crisp pieces of rendered animal fat; cracklings.

tr.v. scrapped, scrap·ping, scraps

1. To break down into parts for disposal or salvage: scrap an old stove.

2. To discard or abandon as useless; cancel: scrap a plan.

[Middle English, from Old Norse skrap, trifles, pieces; see sker- in Indo-European roots.]

scrap²

(skrăp)

intr.v. scrapped, scrap·ping, scraps

To fight, usually with the fists.

A fight or scuffle. See Synonyms at brawl.

[Perhaps variant of scrape.]

scrap′per n.

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

scraps - food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)

food waste, garbage, refuse

waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product - any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted; "they collect the waste once a week"; "much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers"

Translations

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scarti

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Toy Stories: The Toy as Hero in Literature, Comics and Film

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Shelley Jackson is the author of a seminal CD ROM project called Patchwork Girl, one of the first interactive narratives to use Storyspace and incorporate hypertext and hypermedia.

'The Ozymandias project': a digital anthology of creative writing

Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl is not simply a new recreation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in hypertext format; it also tries to develop some of the implications in the original text from the paradigms of contemporary science and criticism.

Gathering the limbs of the text in Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl

For example, in Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl, a contemporary, feminist telling of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the reader confronts an image of the nude female body.

Teaching the hypertext novel

Dock-teater Filur's The Patchwork Girl and the Tramp takes its cue from L.

Barent's puppet theatre festival

Baum was much plagued by his publishers and admirers to produce sequels, and he wrote a number of them: The New Wizard of Oz (1903), Ozma of Oz (1907), Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz (1908), The Road to Oz (1909), The Emerald City of Oz (1910), and The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1913).

Wonderful Wizard Of Oz, The (1900)

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