1. Food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)
   "They composted their scraps to create nutrient-rich soil";
   - garbage [N. Amer], food waste

1. A small fragment of something broken off from the whole
   "a scrap of rock caught him in the eye";
   - bit, chip, flake, fleck
    
2. A small piece of something that is left over after the rest has been used
   "she jotted it on a scrap of paper"; "there was not a scrap left"
    
3. Worthless material that is to be disposed of
   "The city implemented a new system for collecting and processing scrap";
   - rubbish, trash, junk [informal], garbage, refuse
    
4. A small, moderate or token amount
   "He only ate a scrap of his dinner";
   - modicum, ounce
    
5. The act of fighting; any contest or struggle
   "the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap";
   - fight, fighting, combat

1. Dispose of (something useless or old)
   "scrap your old computer";
   - trash [informal], junk [informal]
    
2. Make into scrap or refuse
   "scrap the old aeroplane and sell the parts"
    
3. Engage in a heated argument or dispute
   "These two fellows are always scrapping over something";
   - quarrel, dispute, argufy [informal], altercate [archaic], row[2]
    
4. Postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled
   "scrap the dinner party";
   - cancel, call off, scratch, scrub [informal]

Type of: argue, battle, cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out, conflict, contend, convert, debate, defer, discard, dispose, fence, fling, fragment, hold over, piece, postpone, prorogue, put away, put back, put off, put over, remit, set back, shelve, small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity, struggle, table [N. Amer], throw away, throw out, toss, toss away, toss out, waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product

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