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    scrag
    [skraɡ]
    verb
    informal
    scrag (verb) · scrags (third person present) · scragged (past tense) · scragged (past participle) · scragging (present participle)
    1. handle roughly; beat up.
      • archaic
        US ENGLISH
        kill, especially by strangling or hanging.
    noun
    scrag (noun) · scrags (plural noun)
    1. an unattractively thin person or animal:
      "his companion was a thin scrag of a man"
    2. archaic
      informal
      a person's neck.
    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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    noun
    1. an unattractively thin person or animal:
      skin and bone
      bag of bones
      skinnymalinky
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