scratch-out

plural scratch-outs

1. A mark through or over writing made to revoke it so a correction can be made.

   Any changes to the text were made with a primitive scratch-out.

   1998, Dovid Rossoff, Where Heaven Touches Earth, page iii

   2 more examples

   One of life's more discouraging experiences is to receive an order with a scratch-out or substitution you don't want.

   1987, Restaurant Management, volume 1

   According to the State,the victim had maintained all along that the time of the robbery was 8:15, and there was a scratch out over the report that appeared to give the time of the robbery as 9:15.

   1999, West's Southern Reporter