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scratch

[skrach] / skrætʃ /
NOUN
small cut or mark
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Scratch card winners have 30 days from the date of purchase to claim their winnings, and for Jean-Davide and his unlikely collaborators, the deadline is fast approaching.

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2025

Scratch the surface of American politics or culture, and medievalism seems to always be lurking just beneath.

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2025

And then DJ Scratch came up to me at the Wu show in Vegas and was like, “Yo, I chopped up three of your joints already” and I was like, “Have fun.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2024

"I wanted to be just like Grandma," she wrote in her 2007 memoir "From Scratch."

From Salon • Aug. 19, 2024

“Root around. Scratch your piggy behind on the wall. I have to have something to tell Maria.”

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer




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