Entry · catalog no. 1041

scraper

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noun · west ·

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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.

Region of origin

West

Midwest

N.East

South

Nationwide / diaspora

west ·

Spoken by

$SCRAPEThe Record · cultural traction

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26 yrs

ahead of the mainstream

60/100

peak cultural energy

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

Cultural usage — the recordMainstream search interest

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

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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

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