<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a small piece or portion; fragment: scraps of cloth.</li><li>a scrap of paper; scraps of cloth.</li><li>scraps, bits or pieces of food, especially of leftover or discarded food.</li><li>the remains of animal fat after the oil has been rendered; cracklings.</li><li>a detached piece of something written or printed: scraps of poetry.</li><li>broken, discarded, or rejected items or parts for use as raw material or in reprocessing, as old metal that can be melted and reworked: The two of them drive around collecting scrap to sell.</li><li>chips, cuttings, fragments, or other small pieces of raw material removed, cut away, flaked off, etc., in the process of making or manufacturing an item: Their cutting process is faster, but have you seen the amount of scrap it generates?</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>consisting of pieces or fragments.</li><li>existing in the form of fragments or remnants of use only for reworking, as metal.</li><li>discarded or left over: She was fashioning a toy out of some scrap wood.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>scrapped, scrapping.</li><li>to break up into pieces for discarding or reworking: to scrap old cars.</li><li>to discard as useless, worthless, or ineffective: He urged that we scrap the old method of teaching mathematics.</li></ul>