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scrag

DEFINITIONS OF: scrag

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n a person who is unusually thin and scrawny

Synonyms:
skin and bones, thin person
Antonyms:
butterball, fat person, fatso, fatty, roly-poly
a rotund individual
Types:
spindlelegs, spindleshanks
a thin person with long thin legs
Type of:
individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
a human being

n lean end of the neck

Type of:
cut of mutton
cut of meat from a mature sheep

n the lean end of a neck of veal

Synonyms:
scrag end
Type of:
cut of veal
cut of meat from a calf

v wring the neck of

Synonyms:
choke
Type of:
compact, compress, constrict, contract, press, squeeze
squeeze or press together

v strangle with an iron collar

Synonyms:
garotte, garrote, garrotte
Type of:
strangle, strangulate, throttle
kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air
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