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▪ I. scag U.S. slang.|skæg| Also skag. [Origin unknown.] 1. A cigarette; a cigarette stub.
1915Dialect Notes IV. 235 Scag, cigarette stub. 1928Amer. Speech III. 454 Skag, a cigarette; to smoke. 1936Nat. Geogr. Mag. LXIX. 778/2 A cigarette is a ‘skag’ (and cadets may not smoke in public). 2. Heroin.
1967‘G. Bagby’ Corpse Candle (1968) ix. 121 Acid, grass, skag? 1973E. Bullins Theme is Blackness 152 Most of the guys that we usta swing with are gone, man. In jail, on wine or scag. Ibid. 157 This scag they been sellin' me lately makes me hear funny. 1976R. Condon Whisper of Axe i. iv. 18 Addicts, prostitutes, skag merchants..the amoral and the lost. 1977N. Adam Triplehip Cracksman xiii. 138 I'm no junkie myself, never touched the scag, never even used the White Dragon Pearl.
▸ derogatory. a. U.S. (orig. in African-American usage). An unattractive woman.
1938Amer. Speech 13 316/2 Slang among Nebraska negroes... A young woman of none too pleasing appearance is a skag or a hag. 1961St. Mary's Collegian (St. Mary's College, Calif.) 10 Nov. 6/2 Being a member of a fraternity at the University of California I feel..hurt that the label ‘skag’ was used to denote our parties. I suggest you drop by one of these parties and get the real facts on them. The girls aren't beauties by any means, but we fell [sic] that it's our duty. 1979R. S. Peffer Watermen 117 Ain't seen so many skag women in a year. Goin' to make stayin' home seem sweet. 1992E. A. Proulx Postcards v. li. 285 They were the worst-looking bunch of skags Loyal had seen. 1998‘M. Manson’ & N. Strauss Marilyn Manson xvi. 261 And I shamefully spent the night talking to the skag who tried to masturbate me. b. Brit. regional (midl. and Sc.). A poor, scruffy person. rare.
1939F. Thompson Lark Rise 238 They yelled: Old Hardwick skags! Come..to pick up rags To mend their mothers' pudding-bags. 2000Times Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 28 Apr. (Scotl. Plus) 2 In Bathgate the other schoolkids are calling our boys ‘smelly skags’. ▪ II. scag var. skeg, wild plum. |