small pieces of food that have not been eaten and are usually thrown away

We give all our scraps to our cat. 我们把剩菜剩饭都拿去喂猫了。

This dish is a great way of using up leftover scraps of roast meat.

I usually make a stock from any veggie scraps I have.

Fruit and vegetable scraps can go on the compost heap.

Restaurant food scraps are now collected for composting.

I generally use any pastry scraps to decorate the top of the pie.

See also: scrap noun (SMALL PIECE)