scrag

scrag
    n 1: a person who is unusually thin and scrawny [syn: {thin
         person}, {skin and bones}, {scrag}] [ant: {butterball},
         {fat person}, {fatso}, {fatty}, {roly-poly}]
    2: lean end of the neck
    3: the lean end of a neck of veal [syn: {scrag}, {scrag end}]
    v 1: strangle with an iron collar; "people were garrotted during
         the Inquisition in Spain" [syn: {garrote}, {garrotte},
         {garotte}, {scrag}]
    2: wring the neck of; "The man choked his opponent" [syn:
       {choke}, {scrag}]
    

Scrag \Scrag\ (skr[a^]g), n. [Cf. dial. Sw. skraka a great dry
   tree, a long, lean man, Gael. sgreagach dry, shriveled,
   rocky. See {Shrink}, and cf. {Scrog}, {Shrag}, n.]
   1. Something thin, lean, or rough; a bony piece; especially,
      a bony neckpiece of meat; hence, humorously or in
      contempt, the neck.
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            Lady MacScrew, who . . . serves up a scrag of mutton
            on silver.                            --Thackeray.
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   2. A rawboned person. [Low] --Halliwell.
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   3. A ragged, stunted tree or branch.
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   {Scrag whale} (Zool.), a North Atlantic whalebone whale
      ({Agaphelus gibbosus}). By some it is considered the young
      of the right whale.
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Scrag \Scrag\, v. t. [Cf. {Scrag}.]
   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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40 Moby Thesaurus words for "scrag":
      KO, and quarter, call off, cancel, complete, delete, dispose of,
      draw, drop the curtain, end off, expunge, extinguish, finalize,
      finish, fold up, get it over, get over with, get through with,
      gibbet, give the quietus, hang, kayo, kibosh, kill, knock out,
      liquidate, lynch, neck, noose, perfect, polish off, put paid to,
      rackabones, shoot down, stack of bones, stretch, string up, turn,
      wipe out, zap