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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Origin unknown.[1][2] Compare scat (“heroin; whiskey”), slag (“waste; a prostitute”), skank (“a disreputable woman”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
scag (countable and uncountable, plural scags)
- (slang, uncountable) Heroin.
- (slang, countable, derogatory, originally African American Vernacular) A woman of loose morals.
- (slang, countable, dated, US) A cigarette.
- 1915, “The Doomsday Butt”, in The Cornhusker, page 458:
- “Then have a skag,” said I. / “’Twill make it seem like happier times, / You liked this brand, I understand.”
- 1996, Paul Bunker and Keith Barlow, Bunker's War: The World War II Diary of Paul D. Bunker, page 134:
- Awoke when our florescent lights came on and went outside to smoke a few scags before breakfast.
Verb[edit]
scag (third-person singular simple present scags, present participle scagging, simple past and past participle scagged)
- (computing) To destroy the data on a disk, either by corrupting the filesystem or by causing media damage.
- "That last power hit scagged the system disk."
References[edit]
- ^ “scag, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
- ^ “scag” in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
Anagrams[edit]
Irish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse [Term?].
Verb[edit]
scag (present analytic scagann, future analytic scagfaidh, verbal noun scagadh, past participle scagtha)
Conjugation[edit]
* Indirect relative
† Archaic or dialect form
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “scacaid” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
- "scag" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Entries containing “scag” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “scag” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
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