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scrag

  [skrag] noun, verb, scragged, scrag⋅ging.
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–noun
1. a lean or scrawny person or animal.
2. the lean end of a neck of veal or mutton.
3. Slang. the neck of a human being.
–verb (used with object)
4. Slang. to wring the neck of; hang; garrote.
5. Metallurgy. to test (spring steel) by bending.
Origin:
1535–45; obscurely akin to crag 2
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scrag   (skrāg)   
n.  

  1. A bony or scrawny person or animal.

  2. A piece of lean or bony meat, especially a neck of mutton.

  3. Slang The human neck.

tr.v.   scragged, scrag·ging, scrags Slang
To wring the neck of; strangle.

[Perhaps from dialectal crag, neck, from Middle English cragge, from Middle Dutch crāghe, throat.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
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.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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