scrag

IPA: skrˈæg

(archaic) A thin or scrawny person or animal.
(archaic) The lean end of a neck of mutton; the scrag end.
(archaic) The neck, especially of a sheep.
(Scotland) A scrog.
(UK, slang, derogatory) A chav or ned; a stereotypically loud and aggressive person of lower social class.
(Australia, slang, derogatory) A rough or unkempt woman.
A ragged, stunted tree or branch.

Examples of "scrag" in Sentences

On the black scrag piles, where the loose cords plop
Hunt for the spirit of the coming ruction and try to scrag it!
At the scrag-end of a long thread I quoted Gary Jacobson writing on the 1994 election.
"Well, the lion may be old, mister, but he ain't dead, and he can still take you by your dirty neck and scrag you like the rat you are!"
Also in a quite untimely manner given that Halloween was a week ago; and that I'm clinging on tight to the scrag end of my late-30s with very slippy hands.
Fore quarter: No. 3, the shoulder; 4 and 5 the neck; No. 5 being called, for distinction, the scrag, which is generally afterwards separated from 4, the lower and better joint;
Inferior cuts of mutton can be used advantageously for this dish, such as scrag-end or breast of mutton; the bones and gristle with long stewing give a nice flavor to the dish.
Where Dedham in Essex now has cars mounting pavements and each other in profusion, 1958 saw just one Fordson van in the street, probably delivering scrag end to the vicar's wife.