vag
vag Lexical Profile
vag Game Scores & Validity
• noun
An informal or slang shortening of vagina, referring to the female genital canal or external genitalia.
"The comedy sketch used casual anatomical slang like vag to satirize awkward health education classes."
American A vagrant, tramp, or homeless wanderer; also, the legal charge or state of vagrancy (dated police slang).
"In old noir detective novels, the local sheriff often threatened to lock up drifters on a vag charge."
• verb
American To arrest or charge someone with vagrancy (dated police slang).
"The officers threatened to vag the loiterers if they did not move along before nightfall."
American To wander or roam about as a vagrant without a fixed home or regular employment (dated slang).
"During the Great Depression, thousands of displaced workers were forced to vag across the country in search of seasonal labor."
Word Nuance & Usage
Depending on pronunciation and register, 'vag' serves either as dated police and legal slang for vagrancy or a vagrant (pronounced with a hard 'g'), or as modern colloquial slang for the vagina (pronounced with a soft 'g').
• Rhymes for vag
Word Origin & Etymology
Emerged in the mid-19th century as a colloquial clipping of 'vagrant' and 'vagrancy', and independently in the late 20th century as an informal clipping of 'vagina'.