Definition of "leavings" []

• Scraps or remains; residue: The turkey leavings were fed to the dog. (noun-plural)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "There is an unawareness of the daily blood letting and skin leavings we sacrifice in our work."
• "The farmers would share their wells, and the herders would feed their stock on the leavings from the harvest."
• "He was for five decades a debonair man about town, a swinger musically and socially, the house pianist on the Playboy TV show and not a guy who had to make do with Hef's leavings from the grotto."