scrap heap

or scrapheap

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noun
  1. a pile of old, discarded material, as metal.

  2. a place for dumping old, useless things.

Origin of scrap heap

1
First recorded in 1830–40; scrap1 + heap

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British Dictionary definitions for scrapheap

scrapheap

/ (ˈskræpˌhiːp) /


noun
  1. a pile of discarded material

  2. on the scrapheap (of people or things) having outlived their usefulness

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