Definition of "scrap"

A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.  quotations

1. The smallest amount.  quotations  examples

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   • “I don't mind anything. I don't mind your being technically German a scrap. All I think is that it was a little—well, perhaps a little excessive to marry another German when you had done it once already. […] ”

     1920, [Elizabeth von Arnim], In the Mountains, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, page 188

(usually in the plural) Leftover food.  examples

The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.  examples

(uncountable) Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.  examples

(UK, in the plural) A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips.  examples

(uncountable) Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, such as sweepings left over from handling higher grades.  examples

(ethnic slur, offensive) A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated with the Sureno gang.  examples

(obsolete) A snare for catching birds.

(transitive) To discard; to get rid of.  quotations  examples

(transitive, of a project or plan) To stop working on indefinitely.  examples

(intransitive) To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.  examples

(transitive) To dispose of at a scrapyard.  quotations  examples

(transitive) To make into scrap.  quotations  examples

A fight, tussle, skirmish.  examples

to fight  examples