SCAGとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Origin unknown.^[1][2] Compare scat (“heroin; whiskey”), slag (“waste; a prostitute”), skank (“a disreputable woman”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /skæɡ/
• 韻: -æɡ

名詞

scag (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 scags)

1. (slang, uncountable) Heroin.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:heroin

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

     And I was snorting scag while other kids played tag

   • 1975, David Allan Coe (lyrics かつ music), “Cocaine Carolina”, performed by Johnny Cash:

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

   • 1996, Mark Ravenhill, Shopping and Fucking, Scene One:

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

2. (slang, countable, derogatory, originally African-American Vernacular) A woman of loose morals.
3. (slang, countable, dated, US) A cigarette.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:cigarette

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

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

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

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

派生した語

• Vietnamese: xì ke

動詞

scag (三人称単数 現在形 scags, 現在分詞 scagging, 過去形および過去分詞形 scagged)

1. (computing) To 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.

参照

アナグラム

• CAGs, CGAs, cags