Meaning & use
scrapbook
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a blank book in which pictures, clippings, and other keepsakes are collected and pasted for safekeeping.
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She kept every concert ticket stub in a scrapbook labeled 'Senior Year'.
The family gathered old photographs to build a scrapbook for the reunion.
A note on using this word
It can also be used as a verb, as in 'scrapbooking', a popular craft hobby involving decorative arrangement of photos and memorabilia.
Words with a similar meaning
memory bookalbum
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Another way to use it
2. verb
to compile mementos and photographs into a decorative album.
They spent the rainy afternoon scrapbooking old vacation photos.
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