vag v.
(Aus./US) to charge and/or arrest someone for vagrancy.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 23 Nov. 2/2: Denny Hourigan has been ‘vag’d’ a month in Cleveland. | |
| Bismarck (ND) Weekly Trib. 24 May 2/4: If the peelers found us boozing under the sidewalk, they’d nab us and have us vagged. | |
| Tales of the Ex-Tanks 15: The inestimable value of a front [...] never got a-hold of me until after they had tried to vag me about six times. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Truth (Brisbane) 17 Mar. 2/6: Of course they Vag him rite away — / Thats awl as they can do; / And give him ’arf a stretch or so. | |
| ‘The Dip’ in In Babel 10: This fellow can be vagged [...] He admits himself he’s out o’ money an ain’t got a job. | |
| Bulletin (Sydney) 19 Oct. 15/1: All the faces is familiar – you can meet with every ’ook / That you ever ’ave been vagged with; yer can see yer fav’rite book. | |
| ‘Overalls and Snuff’ in et al. Songs of the Amer. West (1968) 496: If they catch a Wobbly in their burg, they vag him there and then. | |
| Truth (Melbourne) 24 Jan. 8/1: [headline] Vagged at Richmond. And Sent to Army Home. | |
| You Can’t Win (2000) 41: ‘The kid’s not drunk.’ ‘Vag him then.’. | |
| Put on the Spot 72: They vagged me an’ chucked me in the hands of the Children’s S’ciety. | |
| ‘The King in Yellow’ in Spanish Blood (1946) 50: How would you like to get vagged, sister. | |
| ‘A Bargain’ in Mann Coast to Coast 41: He’ll probably vag you. | |
| (con. 1936–46) Winged Seeds (1984) 221: The johns’ll vag a single bloke and run him out of town if he’s caught askin’ for tucker. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Delinquents 71: I’ll have to get you off the street somewhere tonight or you’ll be vagged. | |
| (con. 1930s) ‘Keep Moving’ 15: We’ll have to get a new camp or that bastard’ll vag us. | |
| It (1987) 315: And if I get vagged I’ll build roads for tourists to ride on. | |
| Aus. Prison Sl. Gloss. 🌐 Vagged. Arrested for vagrancy. |