skag

AND scag [skseg]

1. n. a rotten thing or person.

□ Don’t be such a skag. Who do you think you are?

□ Gary has become more of a scag than I can stand.

2. n. a very ugly woman. (Collegiate.)

□ What a skag! I wouldn’t be seen with her.

□ She looks like a scag without makeup.

3. n. a tobacco cigarette; a tobacco cigarette butt. (Military.)

□ Can I bum a scag off you?

□ Here, have a scag on me.

4. in. to smoke (a tobacco cigarette).

□ He stopped scagging for about a week.

□ I’ll scag till I die.

5. n. heroin, especially poor quality heroin; any powerful drug. (Drugs.)

□ Just lay off the skag—if you can.

□ Scag has sent a lot of my friends to the bone orchard.

6. n. hard liquor.

□ No beer for me. Tonight it’s scag.

□ The two of them put away a quart of my finest skag.