scratcher

plural scratchers

1. Someone who scratches.
2. A piece of equipment used to scratch part of the body to relieve an itch.
3. An item made of shreddable material (carpet, corrugated cardboard, etc.) designed to be scratched, usually by pet cats.

   Near-synonym: scratching post

   Synonyms: scratching post

4. gamblingA scratch card.
5. slangA bedding place (e.g., mattress, bunk, hay bed, or bed).

   Near-synonym: pallet

   Synonyms: pallet

6. biologyAny rasorial bird.
7. slangA counterfeiter.

   “I’m what they used to call a scratcher,” the Ukrainian said. “Dupes, counterfeits, identification. Turn wrong names right.”

   2023, Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto, Fleet, page 93

8. derogatoryslangAn unlicensed tattoo artist.
9. A device for cleaning mud etc. from a wellbore.

plural Scratchers

1. computingA user of the Scratch visual programming language.