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What is "scragging"

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scragging

vb. (present participle of scrag English)

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]

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Usage examples of "scragging".

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.