scag n.2
1. bad liquor.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Jive and Sl. n.p.: Skag ... Bad liquor. |
2. (drugs) heroin.
| Vulture (1996) 52: I never touched the skag that the junkies were ridin’ on. | |
| Time 6 Apr. 46: I started getting high on scag at 14 or 15. | |
| S.R.O. (1998) 118: ‘You never used skag [...] You’ll never understand until after you’ve used it’. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | New Musical Express 27 Aug. 25: Killing his pain with an obscene blend of cheeseburgers and scag. | |
| ‘Hustler’s Convention’ 🎵 I was snorting skag while other kids played tag. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Salesman 235: If yer gonna keep me here, y’ll have to get me some skag or some methadone. | |
| Grits 57: A can teyk booze with-a skag, most carnt. | |
| ONDCP Street Terms 19: Scag — Heroin. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 167/2: skag n. heroin. | |
| Raiders 134: As soon as it was whispered that there was skag up for trade I had every junkie in the prison bringing me lumps of hash. | |
| Sun. Times 19 Dec. 21/1: How are you off for skag, or heroin, this weekend. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Dead Man’s Trousers [20]: — Skag: several kilos of uncut pharmaceutical heroin. | |
| Cherry 208: I was pretty wasted on some fucking skag. |
3. attrib. use of sense 2.
| We are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against 65: A mean, crazy-eyed New York scag-shooter. | |
| Carlito’s Way 9: A skag high ain’t but good the first few times out, then you hooked. | |
| Tourist Season (1987) 57: An assortment of scag peddlers from Coconut Grove. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | (con. 1969-1973) Big Whatever 15: Negative conditioning [...] plus a Nam skag habit. |
In derivatives
intoxicated by heroin.
| (con. 1980s) Skagboys 75: Ah goat a bit skagged up when it was aw gaun on [...] Ah banged up in the lavvy . | |
| Rough Trade [ebook] ‘He’s playing [...] tonight and we don’t need him skagged out’. |
pertaining to heroin and/or its use.
| (con. 1980s) Skagboys 262: He’s looking for cheap, seasonal labour, Marriott sais in his camp, skaggy whine. |
In compounds
a heroin addict.
| Star Island (2011) 58: The scrawny no-talent scag freak with rotted teeth. |
1. one who enjoys associating with heroin addicts.
| Crow 🌐 You’re not going to kill yourself for a scag hag and an old drunk. |
2. a female heroin addict.
| Powder 55: Skag-hags and jellyheads. |
a heroin addict; also attrib.
 | ‘Rev. of the Biography of Nick Cave’ in Addicted to Noise 🌐 Cave and company respond with some of the grimiest, most cacophonous rock and roll ever recorded, from the all-time scaghead death-trip classic Junkyard. | |
| Guardian 17 Nov. 11/1-4: ‘To many people he’s just a skeghead [...] Nobody wants to be seen with youn except other skegheads’. | |
| ‘Breakdown’ 🎵 I could never be a scaghead, I’ve got a clean spirit. | |
| Raiders 134: Serious skagheads [...] looking to buy a bit of tackle. | |
| Sun. Times 19 Dec. 21/3: We should all welcome the opportunity to have scagheads living next door. |
(US drugs) a heroin addiction.
| Probert Encyc. 🌐 Scag Jones is American slang for an addiction to heroin. |
a heroin dealer.
| Gutted 228: Avoided the hails of skag merchants, yelling: ‘You sorted, pal?’. |
(drugs) an area of a city or town where addicts live and heroin is easily available.
| Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk) 20 May 🌐 Neighborhood pride had eroded, hope was largely gone, and outsiders had assigned New Road a new name, ‘Scagtown’. | |
| posting at MySpace.com 18 Apr. 🌐 Im a nigga from Exmore Scag Town dat smoke a lot of weed. |
In phrases
(drugs) addicted to heroin.
| Current Sl. V:2 12: Skagged out, adj. Very intoxicated (high) with drugs. | |
| Puberty Blues 99: It wasn’t until much later that I realized he was scagged-out on heroin. |
(Scot.) comatose or impotent as a result of taking heroin.
| Trainspotting 13: Ah’m a bit too skaggy-bawed tae fuck. | |
| (con. 1980s) Skagboys 223: [She’s]gantin oan it, but ah’m too skaggy-bawed tae ride her. |