mag n.4
1. a magazine.
![]() | Gent.’s Mag. Feb. 103/2: The rest of the evening is past in chit-chat, In admiring the Mag, a song, and all that. | |
![]() | Works (1801) V 122: I’ll hire each prostituted Muse, For mags, for newspapers, reviews. | ‘Out At Last!’|
![]() | Comic Almanack May 92: And farthing folks, with penny mags, / Made people penny wise. | |
![]() | (con. 1840s–50s) London Labour and London Poor I 295/1: Odd vols. of old Mags. (magazines), a year or half-year bound together, are capital. | |
![]() | Freres 45: He... is on the staff of I don’t know how many papers and mags [F&H]. | |
![]() | ‘’Arry on the Sincerest Form of Flattery’ in Punch 20 Sept. 144/2: Yours Truly writes only to you, and don’t spread hisself out in the Mags. | |
![]() | Aus. Sl. Dict. 48: Mag, [...] printers slang for magazine. | |
![]() | Letters of Ambrose Bierce (1922) 95: I am sending the W. of W. to Scribner’s [...] and if it is not taken shall try the other mags. | letter 14 Jun. in Pope|
![]() | DN IV:ii 127: mag, from magazine. ‘May I borrow your mag?’. | ‘Clipped Words’ in|
![]() | Hangar Happenings Aug. 1: Here’s to the Wag who started this Mag! | |
![]() | Sel. Letters (1981) 42: The mag has 65,000 circulation. | letter 22 Dec. in Baker|
![]() | Diary I (1950) 26: I mpw have [...] 425 novels in stock plus 300 mags. | |
![]() | Pearls Are a Nuisance (1964) 107: I was readin’ a mag., waiting for time to eat. | ‘Finger Man’ in|
![]() | Dead Ringer 48: She saw my name in Billboard and wrote to me, care of the mag. | |
![]() | Absolute Beginners 22: Inside it looked cool and costly [...] Yank mags and indoor plants. | |
![]() | Proud Highway (1997) 406: Never snub anybody who might someday write for the voyeur mags. | letter 25 Oct. in|
![]() | Blue Movie (1974) 159: Angela Sterling, lithe and round in her famous wrapper of blue brocade [...] which she wore during most of her movie-mag interviews. | |
![]() | Train to Hell 12: You’re wondering why I was reading a women’s mag. | |
![]() | (con. 1970s) King Suckerman (1998) 66: The porno mags spread around his bedroom. | |
![]() | Kill Your Darlings 283: Sports presenters and glossy mag aristos. | |
![]() | Observer Mag. 20 Feb. 20/3: Two of his co-stars have taken up with glamorous girlfriends [...] Buckley with a lad’s mag model. | |
![]() | Pulling a Train’ [ebook] I was working as an editor for [...] the #2 slick men’s mag in the game at that point. | Introduction in|
![]() | Widespread Panic 23: [C]heesecake mags going back to ’36. |
2. a magazine of bullets.
![]() | (con. 1940s) Gun in My Hand 56: Mick [...] told me to get the bren mags from the pouches of the Kiwi lying outside. | |
![]() | (con. 1949) Big Blowdown (1999) 305: Karras hefted the Thompson, pulled back the bolt. ‘How many?’ ‘Thirty-shot mag.’. | |
![]() | ‘Three-Large’ in ThugLit Oct. [ebook] He double-checked the mag and chambered a round. |
3. magnesium; esp. with ref. to magnesium alloy tires.
![]() | Popular Science June 122: The Navy has high hopes for an F9F it has built with an all-mag wing [HDAS]. | |
![]() | Property Of (1978) 73: The silver-studded mag wheels, [...] the custom-made wood-and-chrome steering wheel. | |
![]() | In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 67: ‘My sixty-five CSi BMW.’ ‘With mag wheels.’. | |
![]() | Spidertown (1994) 6: ‘The tinted glass is dope. the four mags gimme speed an’ sleekness.’ [...] ‘The four what?’ ‘The magnesium alloy tires.’. | |
![]() | Screen Door Jesus 93: I’m gonna [...] get some chrome reverse mags and balloon tyres. | ‘A Tinkling Cymbal’ in
4. (US) a magnum pistol.
![]() | Friends of Eddie Coyle 9: I’ll take four-inchers. Thirty-eights. I’l take a three-fifty-seven mag if I have to. | |
![]() | Stand (1990) 149: Two .38s, three .45s, and a .357 Mag. | |
![]() | Because the Night 121: [G]oing after that Hollywood psycho with a thirty-ought-six and a forty-four mag. | |
![]() | 🎵 A chrome 38, a Fo’ty-fo’ mag, and mack 10. | ‘187’|
![]() | (con. 1964–8) Cold Six Thousand 396: He saw a Mossberg pump. He saw a .45. He saw a .357 mag. |
5. see magazine n.2
6. see magsman n. (1)