scrapheap

scrap·heap

also scrap heap S0165000 (skrăp′hēp′)n.1. A pile or heap of waste material.2. A place for discarding useless or worthless material.

scrapheap

(ˈskræpˌhiːp) n1. a pile of discarded material2. on the scrapheap (of people or things) having outlived their usefulness

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Noun	1.	scrapheap - an accumulation of refuse and discarded mattergarbage heap, junk heap, junk pile, refuse heap, rubbish heap, trash heap, trash piledumpsite, garbage dump, rubbish dump, trash dump, wasteyard, waste-yard, dump - a piece of land where waste materials are dumped
	2.	scrapheap - pile of discarded metalcumulation, heap, pile, agglomerate, cumulus, mound - a collection of objects laid on top of each other

scrapheap

nounon the scrapheap discarded, ditched (slang), redundant, written off, jettisoned, put out to grass (informal) Thousands of miners have suddenly found themselves on the scrapheap.

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