Crossword clues for skag
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Skag \Skag\, n. (Naut.) An additional piece fastened to the keel of a boat to prevent lateral motion. See Skeg.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"heroin," 1967, American English, earlier "cigarette" (1915), of unknown origin.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context nautical English) (alternative form of skeg English) 2 (context slang English) (alternative spelling of scag English) heroin.
Wikipedia
Skag is an American drama series that aired on NBC and starred Karl Malden. Skag originated as a three-hour television movie that aired on January 6, 1980 (as an installment of The Big Event). Over a week later, it then premiered as a weekly series, Thursdays at 10/9c, which ran from January 17, 1980, until its cancellation on February 21, 1980.
Skag focused on the life of a foreman at a Pittsburgh steel mill. Malden described his character, Pete Skagska, as a simple man trying to keep his family together. The series was created by Abby Mann, and executive produced by Mann and Lee Rich.
Skag may mean:
- Skag, a television series starring Karl Malden
- Skeg, also spelled skag, the stern ward extension of the keel of some boats and ships
- Skag, a nickname for the drug heroin
- Skag, a colloquially term used to describe the comedown of Ecstasy
- Skag, a derogatory slang term used to describe a very ugly woman.
- Skag, a creature in the video game Borderlands
- SKAG, the ICAO code for Aguaclara Airport, Colombia
Usage examples of "skag".
Louis Napoleon for the recognition of the South, or the establishment of monarchy in Mexico, she would, still bleeding from the wounds inflicted by the Polish insurrection, madly launch her armies upon the Rhine, or start her hiding fleet from behind the fortified shelters of Cronstadt and Helsingfors, make it pass the Sound and Skager Rack, unmindful of the frowning batteries of Landscrona and Marstrand, pass the Strait of Dover, and the English Channel, and enter the Atlantic, quietly leaving behind Calais, Boulogne, Cherbourg, and Brest, and all this with the certainty of raising a storm which might carry the armies of France and her allies into the heart of Poland, and ultimately, by restoring that country, press czardom back, where it ought to be, behind the Dnieper.
Staring wide-eyed at the horror--the way a barbarian elephant kills--the Gul Moti was glad Skag did not see!
It was after they had cared for the Gul Moti with the best they had--water from a mountain stream and food Neela Deo had carried, in a shelter made of tender deodar tips, where she now slept on a bed made of the same--that the mahouts told the Chief Commissioner and Skag, all they themselves had seen.
And then, while Nut Kut wrapped about and drew Horace in closer, Skag laid his fingers on the great bronze trunk, gently but firmly stroking--the red eyes focused in his own.
Skag reflected that since his first sight of the sambhur, he had watched and done nothing.
Indeed, her present humble task is to fetch marine stores from Gefle, taking the place of another transport seized by a couple of Americans in the Skager Rack.