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Scraps

noun

1.

Food that is discarded (as from a kitchen). Synonyms: food waste, garbage, refuse.

Scrap

noun

1.

A small fragment of something broken off from the whole. Synonyms: bit, chip, flake, fleck.

2.

Worthless material that is to be disposed of. Synonyms: rubbish, trash.

3.

A small piece of something that is left over after the rest has been used. "There was not a scrap left"

4.

The act of fighting; any contest or struggle. Synonyms: combat, fight, fighting. "There was fighting in the streets" , "The unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap"

verb

1.

Dispose of (something useless or old). Synonyms: junk, trash. "Junk an old car" , "Scrap your old computer"

2.

Have a disagreement over something. Synonyms: altercate, argufy, dispute, quarrel. "These two fellows are always scrapping over something"

3.

Make into scrap or refuse.

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"Scraps" Quotes from Famous Books

... chair and laughed until he could have cried. Never had he found anything funnier than the boy's honest face and his honest voice pouring forth undigested scraps from haphazard gleanings. ...

— Old Crow • Alice Brown

... called a "horse," with a mincing knife, to slash the junks so as to make them melt easily. These were then thrown into the melting-pots by one of the mates, who kept feeding the fires with such "scraps" of blubber as remain after the oil is taken out. Once the fires were fairly set agoing no other kind of fuel was required than "scraps" of blubber. As the boiling oil rose it was baled into copper cooling-tanks. It was the duty of two other men to dip it out of these tanks into ...

— Fighting the Whales • R. M. Ballantyne

... strapped over his Blucher boots, that his knees threatened every moment to start from their concealment. He produced from his coat pockets a long and narrow strip of parchment, on which the presiding functionary impressed an illegible black stamp. He then drew forth four scraps of paper, of similar dimensions, each containing a printed copy of the strip of parchment with blanks for a name; and having filled up the blanks, put all the five documents in his pocket, ...

— The Pickwick Papers • Charles Dickens

... their own similitude. Where goes the swineherd with that ill-look'd guest? That giant-glutton, dreadful at a feast! Full many a post have those broad shoulders worn, From every great man's gate repulsed with scorn: To no brave prize aspired the worthless swain, 'Twas but for scraps he ask'd, and ask'd in vain. To beg, than work, he better understands, Or we perhaps might take him off thy hands. For any office could the slave be good, To cleanse the fold, or help the kids to food. If any labour those big joints could learn, Some whey, to wash his bowels, ...

— The Odyssey of Homer • Homer, translated by Alexander Pope

... air. When she had closed the door of the second room, as she called it, he felt at last in real possession of her. The place had the flush of life—it was expressive; its dark red walls were articulate with memories and relics. These were simple things—photographs and water-colours, scraps of writing framed and ghosts of flowers embalmed; but a moment sufficed to show him they had a common meaning. It was here she had lived and worked, and she had already told him she would make no change of scene. He read the reference ...

— The Altar of the Dead • Henry James

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