Other forms: scrapyards
A scrapyard is the place where dead vehicles are broken up for parts. Take it to the scrapyard, a scrapyard find, the scrapyard price.
Anything still working is pulled off first and sold, which is why a scrapyard is where owners of old cars find parts nobody makes any more. What is left is crushed and sold by weight as steel.
1nounscrapyardThe place where dead vehicles are broken up for parts.
“When the old van finally died, we sold it to the scrapyard for a few pounds.”
scrapyard is a place.
Scrap plus yard, with scrap from Old Norse skrap, meaning scraps or trifles.
From scrap + yard.
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