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1. A person who is unusually thin and scrawny
   - thin person, skin and bones
    
2. Lean end of the neck
    
3. The lean end of a neck of veal
   - scrag end

1. Strangle with an iron collar
   "people were scragged during the Inquisition in Spain";
   - garrote [N. Amer], garrotte [Brit, Cdn], garotte
    
2. [N. Amer, informal] Wring the neck of
   "The man scragged his opponent";
   - choke

Derived forms: scragged, scragging, scrags

Type of: compact, compress, constrict, contract, cut of mutton, cut of veal, individual, mortal, person, press, somebody, someone, soul, squeeze, strangle, strangulate, throttle

Antonym: butterball [N. Amer, informal]

Part of: neck

Encyclopedia: Scrag