Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Heroin.

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  • noun slang, uncountable heroin
  • noun slang, countable, pejorative A woman of loose morals.
  • verb computing To destroy the data on a disk, either by corrupting the filesystem or by causing media damage.

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  • noun street names for heroin

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Origin unknown.]

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Examples

  • Everyone was using words like 'scag' as if they'd been hanging about on the front line for years.

    High Society Elton, Ben 2002

  • It’s called scag, it’s called horse, it’s called H, it’s called smack, it’s called this, it’s called that.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • It’s called scag, it’s called horse, it’s called H, it’s called smack, it’s called this, it’s called that.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • It’s called scag, it’s called horse, it’s called H, it’s called smack, it’s called this, it’s called that.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Sometimes she looks like a scag, and sometimes not.

    GOLDEN GLOBES ARE LAME 2008

  • Suarez ran the kitchen sink, washing down the scag and chasing it with Drano.

    DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010

  • Suarez ran the kitchen sink, washing down the scag and chasing it with Drano.

    DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010

  • Suarez ran the kitchen sink, washing down the scag and chasing it with Drano.

    DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010

  • Suarez ran the kitchen sink, washing down the scag and chasing it with Drano.

    DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010

  • Then it's all right — it's not being a junkie — cause then you're a rich man and you can cop all the scag you want.

    Hepatitis RR or Bust 2009

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