What is "scratchers"

Usage examples of "scratchers".

What scratchers did was a mix of scavenging and banditry, whatever worked, whatever they had to do to stay alive as they moved around the outskirts of the cities.

The scratchers were camped a little way east of Sacramento, toward the coastal side of the Valley.

The scratchers disappeared into the dusk as the helicopter floated down to land by the side of the road.

The scratchers ran for it, but Tom stuck around and asked us to take him in.

When he was with the scratchers he had slept on one of the blow-up mattresses that they kept in the back of the van.

A few more of the scratchers were hunkered down in a secluded little glade near a stream that had just about run dry.