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"mag" Definition

  1. a halfpenny.—_Ancient Cant_, MAKE. MEGS were formerly guineas.—_B. M. Carew._ MAKE, the old form, is still used by schoolboys in Scotland. “Not a blessed MAG!” would be the phrase of a cadger down on his luck to express his penniless state.
  2. literary and printers’ slang for magazine.
  3. to talk; hence MAGPIE. To MAG in thieves’ slang is to talk well and persuasively.

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Position in the dictionary: 2106 of 4022 slang words.
Next words in the dictionary: maggoty, magsman, mahcheen, mahogany, mahogany flat, mail, main-toby, make, make tracks, make-up
Previous words in the dictionary: madza, maceman, mace, mab, m.t., m.p., m. b. coat, lynch-law, lylo, lushy

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