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Neck; beat up
Answer for the clue "Neck; beat up ", 5 letters:
scrag
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, "lean person or animal, a raw-bones;" perhaps from a Scandinavian source (compare Norwegian skragg "a lean person;" dialectal Swedish skraka "a great, dry tree; a long, lean man," skragge "old and torn thing," Danish skrog "hull of a ship, carcass," ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context archaic English) A thin or scrawny person or animal. (from the 16th c.) 2 (context archaic English) The lean end of a neck of mutton; the scrag end. 3 (context archaic English) The neck, especially of a sheep. 4 (context Scotland English) ...
Usage examples of scrag.
I was scragged to the bone, so tired I could barely keep my eyes open as I climbed the two flights of stairs to my doss in the La Jolla Apartments.
Obvious inevitable inference: Hirst and Manning contrived the burglary, arranging to put it on Nosy Parker and daughter - Hirst found Manning meant to do him out of the swag and scragged him.
Heber and Tadhg were with Iollan, who was letting them practice scratching ogham lines on a scrag of rock behind the house.
When the class moved on, was no longer there, when nothing remained of it but calls, laughter, screams, and the voices of the scrags, schoolies, brain busters, in short, teachers, the magpie called three times.
Thandi realized that she knew very little, when all was said and done, of the strange subculture the Scrags had developed in their long centuries of social isolation.
But then Doc Simon got himself scragged and Gerber was alone again, with no one but ghosts for company.
How many hectares does a golf course take up, all the while people in Redmond and Puyallup are scragging each other for a two-square-meter squat in an alley?
When the class moved on, was no longer there, when nothing remained of it but calls, laughter, screams, and the voices of the scrags, schoolies, brain busters, in short, teachers, the magpie called three times.
Well, a couple of days later I see by the papers where three Brooklyn citizens are scragged as they are walking peaceably along Clinton Street, the scragging being done by some parties in an automobile who seem to have a machine gun, and the papers state that the citizens are friends of Frankie Ferocious, and that it is rumored the parties with the machine gun are from Harlem.
Church of Humanity Unchained which had finally shaken the female Scrags loose from their lingering attachment to Manpower.
Terra, as well as whatever Scrags the Ballroom had managed to get their hands on throughout the city.
Scrag several seconds earlier, since the man was acting as carelessly as Scrags tended to do.
I scragged him all right-a blast hole right through his head casing and he went down.
Some twitch maniac, turned on with some kind of bug juice, had come looking for people to scrag and had settled for Ethel cat.
I looked for rocks of any size to send down but there was none there larger than your fist, just fine gravel and plates of scrag.