Scrag

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A bony or scrawny person or animal.
  • n. A piece of lean or bony meat, especially a neck of mutton.
  • n. Slang The human neck.
  • v. Slang To wring the neck of; strangle.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The lean end of a neck of mutton; the scrag end.
  • n. The neck, especially of a sheep.
  • n. A scrog.
  • n. A rough or unkempt woman.
  • v. (colloquial) To hang on a gallows, or to strangle or garotte or choke.
  • v. To harass, to manhandle
  • v. To kill or destroy.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Something thin, lean, or rough; a bony piece; especially, a bony neckpiece of meat; hence, humorously or in contempt, the neck.
  • n. A rawboned person.
  • n. A ragged, stunted tree or branch.
  • v. To seize, pull, or twist the neck of; specif., to hang by the neck; to kill by hanging.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A crooked branch.
  • n. Something thin or lean, and at the same time rough.
  • n. A scraggy or scrawny person.
  • n. A scrag-whale.
  • n. A remnant, or refuse part; specifically, the neck, or a piece of the neck, of beef or mutton.
  • Scragged or scraggy: said of whales.
  • To put to death by hanging; hang.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. strangle with an iron collar
  • n. lean end of the neck
  • n. the lean end of a neck of veal
  • v. wring the neck of
  • n. a person who is unusually thin and scrawny
  • Verb Form
    scragged    scragging    scrags   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    throttle    strangulate    strangle    cut of mutton    cut of veal    compress    press    compact    squeeze    contract   
    Variant
    scragged    scragging   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    skeleton   
    Same Context
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