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   scrag

   /skraɡ/

   verb

   • 1. handle roughly; beat up: informal British "my brothers were hoping he'd put a foot wrong so they could scrag him"
   • ▪ grasp (an opponent) by placing an arm around the neck: "he was scragged by Budd and Cooper came away with the ball"
   • 2. kill by strangling or hanging: archaic US "many an honester man than her has been scragged"
   • ▪ kill; murder: informal, dated US "you can think up a nicer way of scragging me than by drowning, because you know I loathe water"

   noun

   • 1. an unattractively thin person or animal: "his companion was a thin scrag of a man"
   • 2. a person's neck. archaic, informal

   Word Origin mid 16th century (as a noun): perhaps an alteration of Scots and northern English crag ‘neck’. The verb (mid 18th century) developed the sense ‘handle roughly’ from the early use ‘hang, strangle’.

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