meg

plural megs

1. abbreviationclippingClipping of megabyte.

   Other folk get prima-donnaish about having window offices, or having a personal secretary or stuff like that... you only hold out for a few hundred megs of disk space and a pretty hefty communications budget. We all have our price.

   1990 October 7, Bernie Cosell, “What are we going to do when they come for a.s.p?^([sic])”, in news.admin (Usenet), archived from the original on 07 Aug 2026

2. abbreviationclippingClipping of megahertz.
3. abbreviationclippingClipping of megajoule.

plural megs

1. USobsoleteslangA dollar.

   He could pick out cloth that was thirty meg a yard and get a suit and overcoat for fifteen bucks.

   1916, Ring W. Lardner, “Three Kings and a Pair”, in The Saturday Evening Post

plural megs

1. colloquialball gamesA nutmeg.

present singular third person megs · participle present megging · participle past megged · past megged

1. colloquialtransitiveball gamesTo nutmeg an opponent.

plural megs

1. colloquialA megalodon.

plural Megs · alternative Megs

1. A diminutive of the female given names Margaret and Megan.

   Old Meg was brave as Margaret Queen, And tall as Amazon: An old red blanket cloak she wore, A chip-hat had she on.

   1818, John Keats, Meg Merrilies

   1 more example

   My mother thought Meg a sweet child, that's what she called her, a sweet child, although she was critical of her name. 'What kind of name is that,' she said. 'It's short for Margaret,' I said. 'But everyone calls her Meg.' 'Well, that's no name for a girl, that's a scullery maid's name. I fault the mother.'

   1985, E. L. Doctorow, World's Fair, Fawcett Crest, published 1986, →ISBN, page 208

plural Megs

1. colloquialMegalodon.

   1 more example

   The Bone Valley Region of Florida has multiple Miocene nursery sites in which neonate and young Meg teeth are abundant, as well as food sources. Young Megs probably consumed a lot of large fish but because fish vertebrae don't hold up well in the fossil record, it's difficult to get an accurate reading.

   2002, Mark Renz, Megalodon: Hunting the Hunter, page 33

1. IndiaabbreviationAbbreviation of Meghalaya.

1. IndiaabbreviationAbbreviation of Meghalaya.

plural MEGs

1. abbreviationcountableuncountableAbbreviation of magnetoencephalogram.
2. abbreviationcountableuncountableAbbreviation of magnetoencephalograph.
3. abbreviationuncountableAbbreviation of magnetoencephalography.
4. abbreviationuncountablechemistryAbbreviation of monoethylene glycol.