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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

... pleasure. The noise would gradually die down. The children and the dogs would go to bed first. The groups of people would break up. The air would become more pure. Silence would descend upon the street. Louisa would tell in her thin voice the little scraps of news that she had heard from Amalia or Rosa. She was not greatly interested in them. But she never knew what to talk about to her son, and she felt the need of keeping in touch with him, of saying something to him. And Christophe, who felt her need, would pretend to be interested in everything ...

— Jean-Christophe, Vol. I • Romain Rolland

... his 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 ...

— Old Crow • Alice Brown

... whip us. One time dey give my daddy a quilting en ax several women to come dere. Dey had a lot of chillun to cover en give a quilting so dey can cover dem up. Mistress tell dem to give so en so dis much en dat much scraps from de loom house. I was settin dere in de corner en dey blow cane. Common reed make music en dance by it. Dat de only way niggers had to make music. Dance en blow cane dat night at grandmother's house (Wilson place). Dey was just a pattin en dancin en ...

— Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 2 • Works Projects Administration

... containing a pig or two. It is only the wealthier Manbos who can boast of more than a few, for the maintenance of many would be a heavy drain on their limited food supply. These few pigs subsist on such scraps and parings as may be thrown or allowed to ...

— The Manbos of Mindano - Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir • John M. Garvan

... experiences, found causes for rebellion in all existing forms of human society, and that he left school "to war among mankind," as he says of himself in the Revolt of Islam. His university days are but a repetition of his earlier experiences. While a student at Oxford he read some scraps of Hume's philosophy, and immediately published a pamphlet called "The Necessity of Atheism." It was a crude, foolish piece of work, and Shelley distributed it by post to every one to whom it might give ...

— English Literature - Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World • William J. Long

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