scraper
n.— «Dis bitch hung up on me/dats y i hate her/my nigga toro took me down there in his scraper/i didnt wanna do it/but i had to scrape her.» —by gigolo_duce_tray (Ivan AKA Mayce De Los Santos) in “The Bay,” California Xanga.com Feb. 5, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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