scraps
Because it is a word with a single syllable, scraps is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofscraps
- A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
Example: "I found a scrap of cloth to patch the hole."
- (usually in the plural) Leftover food.
Example: "Give the scraps to the dogs and watch them fight."
- The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
Example: "pork scraps"
- Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
Example: "That car isn't good for anything but scrap."
- (in the plural) A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips.
- A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated with the Norte gang.
- A snare for catching birds.
- To discard.
- (of a project or plan) To stop working on indefinitely.
- To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
- To dispose of at a scrapyard.
- To make into scrap.
- A fight, tussle, skirmish.
Example: "We got in a little scrap over who should pay the bill."
- To fight
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