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:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Vibeke	-	Danish, Norwegian
Valentin	VAH-len-teen (German), vah-lyen-TEEN (Russian), vah-leen-TEEN (Russian)	French, Romanian, German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Czech, Russian, Bulgarian, Slovene, Croatian,
Marjo (2)	MAHR-yo	Dutch
Miguelito	-	Spanish, Portuguese
Jaala	-	Biblical
Doubravka	-	Czech