SCRAPS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scraps mean? 

• SCRAPS (noun)
  The noun SCRAPS has 1 sense:

1. food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)

  Familiarity information: SCRAPS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCRAPS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

food waste; garbage; refuse; scraps

Hypernyms ("scraps" is a kind of...):

waste; waste material; waste matter; waste product (any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted)

 Context examples 

It’s a lie, and you know it. I’m already myde, an’ myde out of leavin’s an’ scraps.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

To know him in bits and scraps is common enough; to know him pretty thoroughly is, perhaps, not uncommon; but to read him well aloud is no everyday talent.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

You coward!’ Those were scraps of her conversation, ending in a sudden dreadful cry in the man’s voice, with a crash, and a piercing scream from the woman.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On the first page there were only some scraps of writing, such as a man with a pen in his hand might make for idleness or practice.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Scraps of old copy-books and exercises litter the dirty floor.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I caught scraps of their conversation, from which I was able only too distinctly to infer the main subject discussed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

They roared with delight, and bellowed out scraps of advice to him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On these packthreads the people strung their petitions, which mounted up directly, like the scraps of paper fastened by school boys at the end of the string that holds their kite.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The researchers created filter ‘bricks’ from sandy soil, charcoal, sawdust and iron scraps, and packed these into the barrels with gravel.

(Soil-based filter bricks clean up water for Moroccan farmers, SciDev.Net)

There were scraps of verse.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)