scrag

A thin or scrawny person or animal.

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

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.

The neck, especially of a sheep.

A scrog.

A chav or ned; a stereotypically loud and aggressive person of lower social class.

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.

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?'

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.