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SCRAP METAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Discarded metal suitable for reprocessing
Example:
he finally sold the car for scrap metal
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("scrap metal" is a kind of...):
rubbish; scrap; trash (worthless material that is to be disposed of)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scrap metal"):
scrap iron (iron to be melted again and reworked)