scraper
n.— «I got rid of the dubbs on my white scraper cause they rubbed to much so i slapped on the 17″ wit vouges from my other scraper.» —“Ozzie’s Oldsmobile: ‘The Scraper’” by ozzie94 in Oakland, Calif. CarDomain.com Dec. 10, 2003. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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