scag

plural scags · alternative skag

1. slanguncountableHeroin.

   And I was snorting scag while other kids played tag

   1973, “Sport”, in Hustler's Convention, performed by Lightnin' Rod

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   So goodbye Cocaine Carolina, you and I are through / I'm going back to Sandy Scag, she knows just what to do

   1975, David Allan Coe, “Cocaine Carolina”, performed by Johnny Cash

   Mark: No. I'm off the scag. Ten days without the scag. And I'm going away.

   1996, Mark Ravenhill, Shopping and Fucking, Scene One

   “"The detectives wiped the mobsters' blood off their boots and found the scag." Scag is heroin. And the book says it's so good, you can never stop doing it!” “See me after class, Jacob.”

   2013 November 12, Gabe Liedman, “Old School” (1:48 from the start), in Brooklyn Nine-Nine, season 1, episode 8, spoken by Young Jake (Miles Platt)

   Synonyms: Big H, boy, brown sugar, brown, bujj, diacetylmorphine, diamorphine, dog food

2. countablederogatoryslangA woman of loose morals.
3. UScountabledatedslangA cigarette.

   Awoke when our florescent lights came on and went outside to smoke a few scags before breakfast.

   1996, Paul Bunker, Keith Barlow, Bunker's War: The World War II Diary of Paul D. Bunker, page 134

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   “Then have a skag,” said I. / “’Twill make it seem like happier times, / You liked this brand, I understand.”

   1915, “The Doomsday Butt”, in The Cornhusker, page 458

   Synonyms: bine, blem, bogie, boagie, butt, cancerette, cancer stick, boon

present singular third person scags · participle present scagging · participle past scagged · past scagged · alternative skag

1. computingTo destroy the data on a disk, either by corrupting the file system or by causing media damage.

   That last power hit scagged the system disk.