Dictionary

scag en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /skæɡ/

Etymology

Unknown. Compare scat (“heroin; whiskey”), slag (“waste; a prostitute”), skank (“a disreputable woman”).

Meanings

1. (slang, uncountable) Heroin.
   • “"The detectives wiped the mobsters' blood off their boots and found the scag." Scag is heroin. And the book says it's so good, you can never stop doing it!” “See me after class, Jacob.” 2013 November 12, Gabe Liedman, “Old School” (1:48 from the start), in Brooklyn Nine-Nine, season 1, episode 8, spoken by Young Jake (Miles Platt):
   • Mark: No. I'm off the scag. Ten days without the scag. And I'm going away. 1996, Mark Ravenhill, Shopping and Fucking, Scene One:
   • And I was snorting scag while other kids played tag 1973, “Sport”, in Hustler's Convention, performed by Lightnin' Rod:
   • So goodbye Cocaine Carolina, you and I are through / I'm going back to Sandy Scag, she knows just what to do 1975, David Allan Coe, “Cocaine Carolina”, performed by Johnny Cash:
2. (countable, derogatory, slang) A woman of loose morals.
3. (US, countable, dated, slang) A cigarette.
   • “Then have a skag,” said I. / “’Twill make it seem like happier times, / You liked this brand, I understand.” 1915, “The Doomsday Butt”, in The Cornhusker, page 458:
   • Awoke when our florescent lights came on and went outside to smoke a few scags before breakfast. 1996, Paul Bunker, Keith Barlow, Bunker's War: The World War II Diary of Paul D. Bunker, page 134:

Forms

Deriveds

scaghead · scaggy

Descendants

xì ke

Synonyms

H · stick · cowboy killer · whiteboy · gasper · sugar · gaf · tab · neen · henry · boon · diamorphine · stoge · zig-zag · dog food · brown · quirly · ron · oily rag · diacetylmorphine · vogue · rig · cancerette · durrie · cancer stick · stoagie · cig · durry · dart · toby rib · rolly · scag · butt · durben · straighter · ciggy · square · fag · mud · smoke · boagie · scag · death stick · blem · lung dart · bujj · yam yam · darb · junk · brown sugar · Big H · muck · snout · boy · spider · gwaai · stogie · bine · white lady · stinky stick · skyf · twiff · paper cigar · straight · bogie · stoag · horse · heroin · smack · dugee · coffin nail · dope

scag en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /skæɡ/

Etymology

Unknown. Compare scat (“heroin; whiskey”), slag (“waste; a prostitute”), skank (“a disreputable woman”).

Meanings

1. To destroy the data on a disk, either by corrupting the file system or by causing media damage.
   • That last power hit scagged the system disk.

Forms