Usually means: Dragging nails across a surface.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. scratching: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. scratching: Merriam-Webster
  3. scratching: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. scratching: Collins English Dictionary
  5. scratching: Vocabulary.com
  6. Scratching, scratching: Wordnik
  7. scratching: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. scratching: Wiktionary
  9. scratching: Dictionary.com
  10. scratching: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Scratching: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Scratching: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. scratching: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. scratching: Rhymezone
  15. Scratching: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. scratching: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. scratching: FreeDictionary.org
  18. scratching: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. scratching: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scratching: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Scratching: Merck Manuals
  2. scratching: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scratching: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. scratching, scratching: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. scratching: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scratching: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Scratching: Bay Area Video Preservation
  3. Scratching: A to Z of Terms related to the Thermal Spray Process and Surface Engineering

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Definitions from Wiktionary (scratching)

noun:  The act or sound of something being scratched.
noun:  A pork scratching.
noun:  Record scratching, a technique of starting and stopping a vinyl record from playing to produce music in hip hop.

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