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scratch
verb- to manipulate a vinyl record to create sounds and rhythms US
Scratching, as a technique, was invented in the late 1970s by 13-year-old Theodore Livingstone (later Grand Wizard Theodore) and widely recognised by the mainstream in 1983 with the release of “Rockit” by Herbie Hancock which featured Grandmixer DST scratching. - I did the scratching and he was the MC. — Lois Stavsky et al. (quoting DJ Fuze, July 1994), A2Z, p. 89, 1995
- [T]echniques like back-spinning, cutting, which was later called scratching[.] — Alex Ogg, The Hip Hop Years, p. 27, 1999
- I liked the bit in the middle (of Malcolm McLaren’s “Buffalo Girls”) that went wucka, wucka, wucka. And he said, “that’s scratching, that is”. — J. Hoggarth (quoting Prime Cuts), How To Be a DJ, p. 81, 2002
- to sign-on for unemployment benefit UK
- informing the dole if guys were scratching and working. — J.J. Connolly, Layer Cake, p. 138, 2000
- to forge US
- — Joseph E. Ragen and Charles Finston, Inside the World’s Toughest Prison, p. 816, 1962: “Penitentiary and underworld glossary”
- to erase something; to withdraw something from a competition UK, 1685
- No, more like a Formula race car. No, scratch that one, too. — Natural Born Killers, 1994
- to whip someone; to mark someone with a whip UK
- [S]ome of the boys, whose backs he had scratched while they were inside, lay in wait for him[.] — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 114, 1956
- to paddle a surfboard energetically US
- — Grant W. Kuhns, On Surfing, p. 121, 1963
▶ scratch gravel
to leave quickly, especially in a car US- — Hy Lit, Hy Lit’s Unbelievable Dictionary of Hip Words for Groovy People, p. 51, 1968
▶ scratch head
to have sex TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
From the sense of HEAD— Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003▶ scratch your monkey
(used of a drug addict) to satisfy your drug habit with an injection or other ingestion of the drug US- — William K. Bentley and James M. Corbett, Prison Slang, p. 72, 1992
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