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noun small piece or amount ADJ. little She scribbled the address on a little scrap of paper. | food The pigs are fed on food scraps. PREP. ~ of Every scrap of land in the town has been built on. recyclable items or material QUANT. piece VERB + SCRAP sell sth for The engine has been sold for scrap. | collect SCRAP + NOUN iron, material, metal, paper, etc. | heap, yard (also scrapyard) My first computer has been consigned to the scrap heap. | dealer, merchant | value Police estimate the scrap value of the lead at around £8,000. fight VERB + SCRAP get into, have PREP. in a/the ~ He looks like he's been in a scrap. | ~ with He had a bit of a scrap with the boy next door.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary