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For the mining or chemical term, see Slag.

Slag primarily used in the United Kingdom, to describe a woman (or recently a man) of loose morals who engages in casual sex and promiscuous behaviour, or a weak and pathetic male. Deriving from the term as used for the ugly piles (slag heaps) of impurities during the smelting of metals the term achieved a wider use with the comic strip The Fat Slags in Viz magazine. Nowadays, popular usage finds the word used in the context of referring to persons of any sex considered contemptible.

Slag is also a slang term meaning "insult" used in parts of Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia, and in Ireland, to slag someone off is to insult them.

In parts of Australia, the word slag is synonymous with "spit" as in saliva.

In the United Kingdom and New Zealand, to slag something or someone off is to disparage it or them in some way, constructively or not, usually to a 3rd party. For example: "This beer is crap", or "[Name of person] is a dweeb".

Slag is a slang word for prostitute in some areas of North America. For example: "Wow, she's being such a slag"

[edit] External links

• IMDB reference to the 2004 motion picture [1]
• BBC article on the aforementioned comic strip [2]