scrap heap

noun

1
: a pile of discarded metal
2
: the place where useless things are discarded

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In his stead at the moment is Ryan Yarbrough, the veteran finesse lefty who Cashman snapped up off the scrap heap after his release from the Blue Jays in March and has pitched well in all four of his starts and one long relief appearance. Bill Madden, New York Daily News, 31 May 2025 Postwar Keynesian dogma should follow postwar Mercantilist dogma onto the scrap heap of history. Nathan Lewis, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025 External actuators were preferred in the early days of self-driving ground vehicles, when even the military, with all its resources, contented itself by grafting control technology onto existing vehicles, probably those that were ready for the scrap heap. IEEE Spectrum, 8 Dec. 2015 Likewise, a page not clearly designed to steal login credentials goes on the scrap heap. PCMAG, 17 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for scrap heap

Word History

First Known Use

1838, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of scrap heap was in 1838

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“Scrap heap.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scrap%20heap. Accessed 16 Jun. 2025.

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