scrag /ˈskræg/
骨瘦如柴的人,弱不禁風的植物,頸肉(vt.)絞死,纏住敵隊頸項不放
Scrag n.
1. Something thin, lean, or rough; a bony piece; especially, a bony neckpiece of meat; hence, humorously or in contempt, the neck.
Lady MacScrew, who . . . serves up a scrag of mutton on silver. --Thackeray.
2. A rawboned person. [Low]
3. A ragged, stunted tree or branch.
Scrag whale Zool., a North Atlantic whalebone whale (Agaphelus gibbosus). By some it is considered the young of the right whale.
Scrag v. t. To seize, pull, or twist the neck of; specif., to hang by the neck; to kill by hanging. [Colloq.]
An enthusiastic mob will scrag me to a certainty the day war breaks out. --Pall Mall Mag.
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scrag
n 1: lean end of the neck
2: the lean end of a neck of veal [syn: scrag end]
v 1: strangle with an iron collar; "people were garrotted during
the Inquisition in Spain" [syn: garrote, garrotte, garotte]
2: wring the neck of; "The man choked his opponent" [syn: choke]
[also: scragging, scragged]