skag

skag

slang Heroin. John's nothing but a skag dealer. His only future is in a grave or behind bars. My mother ended up getting horribly addicted to skag as a result of the opioids she took for pain relief.

skag jones

slang A heroin addiction. John's nothing but a middling musician with a skag jones. He'll never make it anywhere if he doesn't get himself clean. A lot people in this area are suffering from skag jones.
See also: jones, skag

skagged out

slang Very intoxicated with drugs, especially to the point of incoherence, senselessness, or the loss of self-control. Dude, you were skagged out of your mind last night! Do you even remember me coming by? He got mad at me because I was too skagged out to drive him to the airport.
See also: out, skag
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

skag

and scag (skæg)
1. n. a rotten thing or person. Don’t be such a skag. Who do you think you are?
2. n. a very ugly woman. (Collegiate.) What a skag! I wouldn’t be seen with her.
3. n. a tobacco cigarette; a tobacco cigarette butt. (Military.) Can I bum a scag off you?
4. in. to smoke (a tobacco cigarette). He stopped scagging for about a week.
5. n. heroin, especially poor-quality heroin; any powerful drug. (Drugs.) Scag has sent a lot of my friends to the bone orchard.
6. n. hard liquor. The two of them put away a quart of my finest skag.

skag jones

and scag jones
n. an addiction to heroin. (Drugs. Here jones is a “thing” = craving.) She has a serious skag jones.
See also: jones, skag

skagged out

mod. drug intoxicated; very high. (see also skag.) Bart was rocking back and forth on the top step—skagged out, as usual. He got to the point where being skagged out was more important than eating.
See also: out, skag
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • scag
  • skag jones
  • horsed
  • on the needle
  • kick cold
  • kick cold (turkey)
  • on the junk
  • zip
  • zipped
  • on the mojo
References in periodicals archive
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After playing The Don, Webster took over the mic for Grans For Tea and Skag Trendy.
The Libertines have become the keepers of the English song-writing flame lit by Ray Davies but their punky songs are about The Skag And Bone Man instead of Waterloo Sunset.
Naomi Rye spends the school year with her dad in Chicago, where she hangs out with her BFF, Skags. She spends every summer with her mom, a Food Network superstar, in East Hampton, where her middle-class lifestyle and values make her an outsider.
A tragedy involving a local waitress and an emergency crisis at her mom's company bring Naomi back to reality, along with texts and conversations with the ever-grounded Skags. This debut novel is another retelling of The Great Gatsby set in a contemporary backdrop that should engage teen chick-lit fans, as the author intersperses fashion and pop-culture insider terms to keep them on track.
Officers also found skags - pills containing a heroin and ecstasy.