scrapper
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]scrapper (plural scrappers)
- A person who disposes of scraps, such as one who collects scrap metal to sell to a scrap dealer.
- After the uncle died they sold off most of his rustbuckets to a scrapper and kept one to fix up.
- A person who fights doggedly, who exhibits indomitable will.
- He's a real scrapper, even against impossible odds, he always keeps fighting.
- 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
- "An old scrapper don't find many openings. Chucker-out at a pub with free drinks. Nothing doing there."