Entry · catalog no. 1041

scraper

/ /ˈskreɪ.pɚ/ /SKRAY-pur

noun · west · 2000s

✓ Verified

A customized older American car — often a Buick or Oldsmobile — riding on big after-market rims, central to Bay Area hyphy car culture.

“He pulled up in a candy-blue scraper with the top down.”

Origin & Attribution

Oakland and the greater San Francisco Bay Area, late 1990s and 2000s, at the heart of the hyphy movement.

late 1990s

Emerges in Oakland car culture

2000s

Hyphy movement peak

Region of origin

West

Midwest

N.East

South

The West

west · 2000s

Spoken by

Oakland and Bay Area Black speakers

$SCRAPEThe Record · cultural traction

▲ Steady

27 yrs

ahead of the mainstream

50/100

peak cultural energy

Introduced to English by the culture — logged here before the mainstream caught on.

Cultural usage — the recordMainstream search interest

First used

1999

in the culture

Cultural energy indexed from documented usage, search interest, and citation frequency. The recorded date is the archive’s permanent point of record.

Hear it spoken

By region — how it actually sounds

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Oakland, CA

@ladi

Los Angeles, CA

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Citations & Sources

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Trunk Boiz — "Scraper Bike," song · 2007

submitted

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E-40 and the hyphy movement — documented · 2000s

submitted