chiefly British, disparaging + offensive
: a lewd or promiscuous woman
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Verb
London reviewers slagged off the new play for being another kitchen-sink drama.
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Literary Hub, 22 Jan. 2026
CT scans employed to study metals For the study, MIT researchers took a slag sample from an ancient site in Iran called Tepe Hissar.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 22 Nov. 2025
Dominic Patten, Deadline, 20 Dec. 2025
Someone was slagging someone else, someone was telling an outraged story, someone was discussing the logistics of the night.
—Literary Hub, 22 May 2025
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Noun
Other people worked as porteurs (mineral carriers), laveurs (mineral washers), and ramasseurs (groups, consisting mainly of children, who pick up slag that has been discarded near the mines).
—Literary Hub, 22 Jan. 2026
CT scans employed to study metals For the study, MIT researchers took a slag sample from an ancient site in Iran called Tepe Hissar.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 22 Nov. 2025
Verb
Then there was that Vanity Fair profile of Trump’s inner circle of the not really best and the brightest where Chief of Staff Susie Wiles bluntly slagged everyone including her boss or went deep with a Black Op that fell flat.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 20 Dec. 2025
Someone was slagging someone else, someone was telling an outraged story, someone was discussing the logistics of the night.
—Literary Hub, 22 May 2025
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“Slag.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slag. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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