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-scraper

suffix

Etymology

Back-formation from skyscraper.

Definitions

  1. Denoting a type of tall building.

    • farm + -scraper → farmscraper (“a high-rise building used for growing crops or raising livestock”)
    • skinny + -scraper → skinnyscraper (“an extremely tall and narrow building”)
    • sea + -scraper → seascraper (“a tall building built underwater”)

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for -scraper. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA