scrag

Related to scrag: scrag end, Scrag whale

scrag

1. noun The lean meat taken from the neck of an animal, especially mutton. His new cookbook focuses on maximizing small budgets by using cheaper cuts of meat, such as beef cheeks or scrags of mutton.
2. noun, slang The skin of the elbow. I've always hated the way my elbow scrag looks, so I'm getting a tattoo done over it.
3. noun, slang A promiscuous, coarse, or unkempt woman; a slut. Primarily heard in Australia. He called me a scrag after I rejected his advances, so I slapped him right in the face.
4. verb, slang To wring or throttle the neck of someone or some animal. The mugger scragged his victim to drown out her screams.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

scrag

(skræg)
1. n. the neck. (Underworld.) The cop grabbed him by the scrag and pushed him along to the squad car.
2. tv. to kill someone or something. (Originally underworld to strangle.) The gang decided that somebody was going to have to scrag the witness.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • junk
  • Junk it!
  • doo
  • swag
  • laced mutton
  • angle
  • angling
  • juice
  • juiced
  • jack
References in periodicals archive
The SCRAG + has showed BMI 20.22 kg/[m.sup.2] whereas SCRAG-cases 20.56 kg/[m.sup.2], which is definitely higher than the previous researchers (<15.4 kg/[m.sup.2]) Oyella et.
Q I have seen a cut of lamb in the supermarket called scrag. How would I use this?
The drillhole, located at Wallace Lake near Digby (44[degrees]29'08.5", 65[degrees]43'19.7", Fig.1), penetrated the northwestern portion of the Scrag Lake pluton.
There he goes, leaving many of his choice cuts on the shelf and still puts out the leanest, most succulent chateaubriand against Everton's scrag end of lamb.
4) Duncan Taylor on Tom James, 2016: Scotland centre legs it across the field to brilliantly scrag Wales wing with try line beckoning.
'ese two could not carry it o, I think.' ey crossed the road to Johnny ' Scrag's van, where Iwan picked out a shoulder of lamb.
Fair enough, my mum used to buy something called 'scrag end' to make Scouse with but then she'd also enjoy tripe for tea or, God help us, baked lamb's heart and a pig's trotter.
It''s ideal for the cheaper cuts of meat such as neck, scrag end (which is essentially neck) or shoulder.
England received an early let-off when Dan Carter missed a penalty but when the All Blacks spread play wide, Steve Borthwick was on hand to scrag Cowan at the back of a ruck.
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She was pleased that the beef was top quality and not scrag end as can so often be the case when a meat is covered in a thick sauce.
Certainly the world they have created in what they describe as The Scrag End Tour sees them making a lot of connections.
THE traditional way of making hotpot is to casserole scrag end of lamb with a potato crust packed full of root vegetables.
"Fellas were hurting from the weekend they might say first phase full contact and then after it's scrag, it wasn't like that.