scrapper

From scrap +‎ -er.

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• Rhymes: -æpə(ɹ)

scrapper (plural scrappers)

1. 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.

2. 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."

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