scrap metal

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   discarded metal suitable for reprocessing

   “he finally sold the car for scrap metal”

   Broaderrubbish

   Narrowerscrap iron

Questions about scrap metal

What does scrap metal mean?

scrap metal means "discarded metal suitable for reprocessing".

Is scrap metal a common word?

scrap metal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.