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scrag
(skrăg)n.
1. A bony or scrawny person or animal.
2. A piece of lean or bony meat, especially a neck of mutton.
3. Slang The human neck.
tr.v. scragged, scrag·ging, scrags Slang
To wring the neck of; strangle.
[Perhaps from dialectal crag, neck, from Middle English cragge, from Middle Dutch crāghe, throat.]
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scrag
(skræɡ)n
1. a thin or scrawny person or animal
2. (Cookery) the lean end of a neck of veal or mutton
3. (Anatomy) informal the neck of a human being
vb (tr) , scrags, scragging or scragged
informal to wring the neck of; throttle
[C16: perhaps variant of crag; related to Norwegian skragg, German Kragen collar]
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scrag
(skræg)n., v. scragged, scrag•ging. n.
1. a lean or scrawny person or animal.
2. the lean end of a neck of veal or mutton.
3. Slang. the neck of a human being.
v.t. 4. Slang. to wring the neck of; hang; garrote.
[1535–45; obscurely akin to crag2]
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scrag
Past participle: scragged
Gerund: scragging
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| Noun | 1. |  scrag - a person who is unusually thin and scrawnyindividual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do" spindlelegs, spindleshanks - a thin person with long thin legs |
| 2. | scrag - lean end of the neck neck - a cut of meat from the neck of an animal cut of mutton - cut of meat from a mature sheep | |
| 3. | scrag - the lean end of a neck of veal neck - a cut of meat from the neck of an animal cut of veal - cut of meat from a calf | |
| Verb | 1. | scrag - strangle with an iron collar; "people were garrotted during the Inquisition in Spain" strangle, strangulate, throttle - kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air; "he tried to strangle his opponent"; "A man in Boston has been strangling several dozen prostitutes" |
| 2. | scrag - wring the neck of; "The man choked his opponent" |
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