Scratch

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Scratch may refer to:

  • A scratch is physical damage such as a groove in a physical surface such as a painted or unpainted surface, or the skin
  • Scratch Orchestra, an orchestra founded by Cornelius Cardew
  • "Scratch", the nickname of influential Jamaican recording artist Lee "Scratch" Perry
  • Scratching, the technique of moving a vinyl record back and forth with your hand while it is playing on a turntable
  • Scratching, the technique of playing dampened strings on the guitar
  • Scratches (game), a mystery adventure computer game by Nucleosys
  • Scratch (film), a documentary film about disc jockeys and hip hop culture
  • Scratch and Grounder, fictional robots who appeared in the TV show Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog and the game Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine that was based on the TV show.
  • Scratch (hacker jargon), in hacker jargon, a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for testing or temporary-use purposes
  • Scratch (play), a 1971 stage play by Archibald MacLeish
  • "Old Scratch", a colloquialism for the devil, as indicated by the name of the character in the Stephen Vincent Benét short story, "The Devil and Daniel Webster"
  • "Scratch," a song by Morphine from their 1995 album Yes
  • On scratch is the term used in handicap competitions for a player with no handicap or the maximum handicap (depending on the way the handicap is rendered), thus having to perform better than every other competitor to win
  • A scratch is also an action which may either be done in violence or in response to an itch
  • Scratch (magazine) is a Hip-Hop magazine
  • One's scratch is the total cash available to an indiviudal on a subsistence level income
  • "To make good scratch" Slang term - Refers to Earning power for one's efforts.
  e.g. You can make some good scratch from working for that company.
  • To make something from scratch, most commonly used in cooking, means to make it from the base ingredients, with no pre-made mixes or pre-cooked parts
  • Scratch is one of the nicknames for the Brazilian national sports teams (as the Brazil national football team).
  • A scratch is the accidental act of knocking the cue ball into a hole in billiards.
  • Scratch (musician) is a DJ and former member of the Roots.
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