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  • scrag-end — scragˈ end noun The scrag of a neck • • • Main Entry: ↑scrag …   Useful english dictionary

  • scrag — [skrseg] 1. n. the neck. (Underworld.) □ The cop grabbed him by the scrag and pushed him along to the squad car. □ It’s gonna be your scrag in the noose when this hing’s over. 2. tv. to kill someone or something. (Originally underworld to… …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • scrag — 1. noun a) A thin or scrawny person or animal. b) The lean end of a neck of mutton; the scrag end. 2. verb a) To harass, to …   Wiktionary

  • Scrag — Scrag, v. t. [Cf. {Scrag}.] To seize, pull, or twist the neck of; specif., to hang by the neck; to kill by hanging. [Colloq.] An enthusiastic mob will scrag me to a certainty the day war breaks out. Pall Mall Mag. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Scrag — (skr[a^]g), n. [Cf. dial. Sw. skraka a great dry tree, a long, lean man, Gael. sgreagach dry, shriveled, rocky. See {Shrink}, and cf. {Scrog}, {Shrag}, n.] 1. Something thin, lean, or rough; a bony piece; especially, a bony neckpiece of meat;… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Scrag whale — Scrag Scrag (skr[a^]g), n. [Cf. dial. Sw. skraka a great dry tree, a long, lean man, Gael. sgreagach dry, shriveled, rocky. See {Shrink}, and cf. {Scrog}, {Shrag}, n.] 1. Something thin, lean, or rough; a bony piece; especially, a bony neckpiece… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • scrag — [skrag] n. [prob. < ON, as in Norw skragg, feeble, stunted person, Dan skrog, ON skröggr, fox (nickname) < IE base * (s)ker , to shrivel, shrink] 1. a lean, scrawny person or animal 2. a thin, stunted tree or plant 3. the neck, or back of… …   English World dictionary

  • Scrag — can refer to:*Global Rocket 1 *A monster, also referred to as a wizard , in the 1996 computer game Quake *A type of aquatic troll in Dungeons Dragons …   Wikipedia

  • scrag — ► VERB (scragged, scragging) informal, chiefly Brit. ▪ handle roughly; beat up. ► NOUN 1) an unattractively thin person or animal. 2) archaic, informal the neck. ORIGIN perhaps an alteration of Scots and northern English crag «neck» …   English terms dictionary

  • scrag end — noun the lean end of a neck of veal • Syn: ↑scrag • Derivationally related forms: ↑scrag (for: ↑scrag) • Hypernyms: ↑cut of veal • …   Useful english dictionary

  • scrag — I. vb 1. British to torment, tease, attack, beat up. A schoolboy term dating from the 19th century. 2. American to kill, destroy. An under world term adopted by black street gangs in the 1980s. In 18th and 19th century British slang scrag was… …   Contemporary slang

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