What it means
Means food, a meal, or anything that’ll sort your hunger out fast. You’ll hear it when someone’s proper starving and needs a feed, no fuss, no fancy talk. It can cover a full roast, a greasy chippy tea, or whatever’s left in the fridge at 2am. Common in Scouse and across the UK and Ireland, especially in casual, working-class chat.
Usage examples
"I’m absolutely hanging, la. Let’s grab some scran before the match, even if it’s just a cheesy chips from the chippy."
"We were starving after the hike, so we stopped at the first chippy and demolished a proper plate of scran before saying a word."
Where it comes from
From old naval and Scouse slang for rations or scraps of food. The word stuck around the docks and spread across the UK and Ireland as the no-fuss word for a feed.
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