SCRAP METAL

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Discarded metal suitable for reprocessing

Example:

he finally sold the car for scrap metal

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Nouns denoting substances

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)

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