scrap heap

or scrap·heap


noun

a pile of old, discarded material, as metal.
a place for dumping old, useless things.

Origin of scrap heap

First recorded in 1830–40; scrap1 + heap

Words nearby scrap heap

British Dictionary definitions for scrapheap

scrapheap
/ (ˈskræpˌhiːp) /

noun

a pile of discarded material
on the scrapheap (of people or things) having outlived their usefulness