What does the word slag mean?
Slag is a pejorative slang term, primarily used in United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Australia, to describe women who often engage in casual sex and promiscuous behaviour. Its meaning is broadly similar to the terms “slut” and “skank”. It originally derives from the same term for piles of impurities skimmed off during the smelting of metals. Other words for slag include; “slut,” “slapper,” “ho,” or “scrubber”. In Australia, the word “slurry” is also used as an insult, in this case the meaning derives from the stone slurry discharged as waste from the mining of metals. In the 1970s television series The Sweeney, the term ‘slag’ is often used in both the ‘promiscuous woman’ sense and also to mean a petty criminal. Today, usage increasingly finds the word used in the additional context of referring to persons of any gender considered contemptible. It’s also been used to mean “insult in jest” or “tease playfully” in Ireland in particular, but also in some parts of Canada, the Uni
