Scotch most commonly refers to: * Scotch (adjective), a largely obsolescent adjective meaning "of or from Scotland" **Scotch, old-fashioned name for the indigenous languages of the Scottish people: *** Scots language ("Broad Scotch") *** Scottish Gaelic ("Scotch Gaelic") * Scotch whisky, a whisky made in Scotland, which outside Scotland is commonly abbreviated as "Scotch" Scotch may also refer to:

Places

* Scotch Corner, a junction of the A1 road and the A66 road in North Yorkshire, England

Art, entertainment, and media

* Scotch (band), an Italian disco/pop group during the 1980s *

Hopscotch Hopscotch is a popular playground game in which players toss a small object, called a lagger, into numbered triangles or a pattern of rectangles outlined on the ground and then hop or jump through the spaces and retrieve the object. It is a ch ...

, a children's game *

Scotch Game The Scotch Game, or Scotch Opening, is a chess opening that begins with the moves: :1. e4 e5 :2. Nf3 Nc6 :3. d4 Ercole del Rio, in his 1750 treatise ''Sopra il giuoco degli Scacchi, Osservazioni pratiche d’anonimo Autore Modenese'' ("On t ...

, a chess opening

Brands and enterprises

*Scotch, a brand name used by 3M until 1996 for recordable media, such as audio cassettes and video cassettes * Scotch Tape, a commercial brand name for a type of adhesive tape made by 3M

Food and drink

Butterscotch Butterscotch is a type of confectionery whose primary ingredients are brown sugar and butter, but other ingredients are part of some recipes, such as corn syrup, cream, vanilla, and salt. The earliest known recipes, in mid-19th century Yorkshir ...

, a confectionery *

Scotch ale Strong ale is a type of ale, usually above 5% abv and often higher, between 7% to 11% abv, which spans a number of beer styles, including old ale, barley wine and Burton ale. Strong ales are brewed throughout Europe and beyond, including in Engl ...

, a type of strong ale found in Scotland and North East England *Scotch Beef, beef from suckler cattle in Scotland with EU

Protected Geographical Status Three European Union schemes of geographical indications and traditional specialties, known as protected designation of origin (PDO), protected geographical indication (PGI), and traditional specialities guaranteed (TSG), promote and protect nam ...

* Scotch broth, a soup made with mutton, barley, leeks, peas, carrots and swedes (rutabagas) *

Scotch egg A Scotch egg is a boiled egg wrapped in sausage meat, coated in breadcrumbs and baked or deep-fried . Origin The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' gives the first instance of the name as of 1809, in an edition of Maria Rundell's '' A New System ...

, a hard boiled egg served wrapped in sausage meat and breadcrumbs, and fried *Scotch pancake, a small, sweet pancake * Scotch pie, a small, double-crust meat pie filled with minced mutton or other meat

Materials and goods

*Scotch, a wedge used to prevent railway vehicles moving in

clip and scotch To clip and scotch a set of railway points (Amer. a ''switch'') uses two pieces of equipment to temporarily lock a set of points into a particular position. The ''point clip'' clamps the end of a moving rail (the switch rail) of a set of points t ...

* Scotch gauge, a narrow gauge of railway used in Scotland and Japan * Scotch key, pins inserted into holes drilled axially to fix an item such as a gear onto a shaft

Typography

* Scotch Roman is a class of 19th century typefaces

Computing

*The Scotch and PT-Scotch software for Graph partitioning

Other uses

* Scotch College (disambiguation), several private schools associated with the Presbyterian Church and/or the Uniting Church, in Australia * Scotch Mist (disambiguation)