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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scragged

Scragged \Scrag"ged\, a.

  1. Rough with irregular points, or a broken surface; scraggy; as, a scragged backbone.

  2. Lean and rough; scraggy.

Wiktionary
scragged

a. 1 rough with irregular points or a broken surface; scraggy. 2 lean and rough; scraggy.

WordNet
scrag

  1. n. lean end of the neck

  2. the lean end of a neck of veal [syn: scrag end]

  3. v. strangle with an iron collar; "people were garrotted during the Inquisition in Spain" [syn: garrote, garrotte, garotte]

  4. wring the neck of; "The man choked his opponent" [syn: choke]

  5. [also: scragging, scragged]

scragged

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Usage examples of "scragged".

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.

Perfect, that is, if we could get to the stairs without getting scragged in the process.

He'd have told me then because then he'd have scragged the bastard with his bare hands.

He didn't want witnesses blabbing, that's why I figure he scragged them.

Wardeel led her forward to it, Barney saw that she was a small, faded elderly woman with grey hair scragged back into a bun, and wearing rather shoddy clothes.

As he had directed, she had no obvious make-up on and had had her hair scragged back tightly into a bun.

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.

Maybe you remember John the Boss, and the heat which develops around and about when he is scragged in Detroit?