scrag

noun

1. (archaic)A thin or scrawny person or animal.

   “In any event he might have wakened the long scrag by so doing.”

2. (archaic)The lean end of a neck of mutton; the scrag end.

   “The butcher and the porkman painted up only the leanest scrags of meat; the baker, the coarsest of meagre loaves.”

3. (archaic)The neck, especially of a sheep.
4. (Scotland)A scrog.
5. (UK, derogatory, slang)A chav or ned; a stereotypically loud and aggressive person of lower social class.
6. (Australia, derogatory, slang)A rough or unkempt woman.

   “Post scrag fight, Buffy is sweetness and light in her cardy and teeny tiny handbag (plus blonde hair) contrasting with Faith who is lying in bed with her kill-me-thrill-me cutoff shorts (plus brunette hair).”

   “Get a life, you stupid scrag.”

7. A ragged, stunted tree or branch.

verb

1. (colloquial, obsolete)To hang on a gallows, or to choke, garotte, or strangle.

   “An enthusiastic mob will scrag me to a certainty the day war breaks out.”

2. To harass; to manhandle.

   “'...I urged him ... to ... try the Ickenham System ... a little thing I knocked together in my bachelor days ... it has a good many points in common with all-in wrestling and osteopathy. I generally recommend it to diffident wooers and it always works like magic...' Johnny stared. 'You mean you told McMurdo to … scrag her?'”

3. To destroy or kill.

   “[...] I went out lookin' for a line of retreat for my men. A man found me. I abolished him—privatim—scragged him.”

   “But they'll scrag you for it, you know, if you do. They scrag anyone who speaks to me.”