1. To hastily draw one or more lines through something, either to conceal it or indicate that it should be skipped, ignored, or canceled. Third step in the instructions was scratched out, so I figured I was supposed to skip it—what else was I supposed to think?My mother used to go through the books and magazines in our house and scratch the dirty words out with a ballpoint pen.
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, the Department of Sociology and the Gender Studies program are co-sponsoring a talk with the Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures, by Dr. Angela Stuesse (UNC) entitled “Scratching Out A Living: Latinos, Race, and Work in the Deep South” on Wednesday, October 2nd at 5:30pm in Old Main room 1030. Her ethnographic work on Mississippi.
2. To eliminate or strike through someone's or something's name from a list. A noun or pronoun can be used between 'scratch' and 'off'; usually followed by 'from' and the kind of list being mentioned. Well, that's another thing we can scratch out from our to-do list for our trip through Europe.I had to scratch him out from the list of players for Saturday's game when I found out he was failing in three subjects.I had to scratch Jenny out from the roster because she was late for the third time in a row.
Mar 08, 2016 'Scratching Out a Living is a model of engaged scholarship. In this timely, beautifully-written, and deeply researched activism-based ethnography about the poultry industry in the American South, Stuesse demonstrates how workers are exploited and divided on the basis of racial and ethnic identities within the context of neoliberal globalization. Apr 20, 2018 Jackson Galaxy has a video on YouTube on stopping the scratching. If you’re a reader, The American Association of Feline Practice has a helpful guide to living with a clawed cat and a printable pdf. Hopefully, these tips will help get your kitty to stop scratching the furniture. Oct 08, 2008 Scratching out a living. Local News October 8, 2008. 0; Laura Brown Staff Writer. 0; Finding a local chicken raised cage-free on pasture grass and grubs is a near impossible feat for today’s diners, but one a Nevada County chicken farmer is claiming success at. Scratching Out a Living takes readers deep into Mississippi's chicken processing plants and communities, where large numbers of Latin American migrants were recruited in the mid-1990s to labor alongside an established African American workforce in some of the most dangerous and lowest-paid jobs in the country.
3. To write or draw something hastily by hand. He quickly scratched out a phone number on a slip of paper and pushed it across the desk to me.I scratched out a crude sketch of the attacker while his face was fresh in my mind.
scratch someone or something out
to mark out the name of someone or something. I scratched John out and wrote in George instead. I scratched out John and forgot about him.
scratch out
v.
1. To draw a line or lines on something to delete or obscure it, or to indicate that it should be canceled or ignored: Scratch out anything on the shopping list that you think is too expensive. I didn't like the words you had written, so I scratched them out.
2. To remove someone or something from a list or record: Scratch out the neighbors from the list—they're not coming to the wedding. I'm not playing tonight, so you can scratch my name out.
3. To get by with some way of life, especially with very few resources: We barely scratched out a living during the war.
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