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scratch

1. n. money. I just don’t have the scratch.

2. tv. to eliminate something from a list; to cancel something. We decided to scratch the idea of a new car. The old one will have to do.

3. mod. impromptu; temporary. (see also pickup.) We started a scratch game of basketball, but most of the girls had to leave at dinnertime.

See:

• (one's) (hand)writing is like chicken scratch
• be up to scratch
• from scratch
• have (hand)writing like chicken scratch
• like tryin' to scratch your ear with your elbow
• not up to scratch and not up to snuff
• scratch
• scratch (someone or something) together
• scratch about
• scratch at
• scratch away
• scratch back
• scratch for (one)self
• scratch from
• scratch head
• scratch off
• scratch one's head
• scratch out
• scratch sheet
• scratch someone's back
• scratch that
• scratch the surface
• scratch up
• start from scratch
• up to par
• up to scratch
• You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours