scrap
/skræp/ nounDefinition
SMALL PIECE [C] › a small piece or amount of something: He wrote his phone number on a scrap of paper. I've read every scrap of information I can find on the subject.
OLD [U] › old cars and machines that are not now needed but have parts which can be used to make other things: scrap metal The car was so badly damaged we could only sell it as scrap.
FIGHT [C] informal › a fight or an argument, usually not very serious: He was always getting into scraps at school.
(Definition of scrap noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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