scrap

IPA: skrˈæp

A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
The smallest amount.
(usually in the plural) Leftover food.
The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
(uncountable) Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
(UK, in the plural) A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips.
(uncountable) Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, such as sweepings left over from handling higher grades.
(ethnic slur, offensive) A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated with the Sureno gang.
(obsolete) A snare for catching birds.
A fight, tussle, skirmish.

Examples of "scrap" in Sentences

I run my town's recycling center and can attest to the sharp rise (and subsequent fall) in scrap metal prices.
Victory for Chelsea will put them in the box seat in the title scrap - two points clear of United with five games to go.
One of my friends hired a photographer to get up what he called a scrap-book of pictures to take home to his family in Tokio in order to "entertain his people."
The title scrap would then be resolved in a series of rapid games, which Anand, known as the lightning kid in his younger days for the speed of his moves, was favoured to win.
Below the title scrap, Roman Pavlyuchenko boosted fourth-placed Tottenham Hotspur's push for Champions League qualification with two goals in a 3-1 home defeat of Blackburn Rovers.
This scrap is full of personifications, and if Joy is one of the party I am determined she shall be a lady, and if so I am as fully determined, to have her hand white if I have it at all.
Using approximately 50 meters of recycled highway guard rails from the General Paz (a highway surrounding Buenos Aires) and 300 meters of discarded metal profiles, wood, iron doors and windows found in scrap yards, Dieguez and Gilardi rework demolition materials into fully functioning structural elements.