Slag (slang)
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- For the mining or chemical term, see Slag.
Slag primarily used in the United Kingdom (and states of the USA in varying seriousness[citation needed]), to describe women (or, more recently, men) of loose morals who engage in casual sex and promiscuous behaviour and may even be suspected of prostitution. Deriving from the term for the ugly piles of impurities skimmed off during the smelting of metals (Commonly "slag heaps") the term achieved a wider use with the comic strip The Fat Slags in Viz magazine. 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.
Nowadays, increasing 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 in Ireland, to 'slag someone off', is to insult them.
In the United Kingdom and New Zealand, to slag something (or someone) off is to insult / pick faults with it (or them) in some way, constructively or not and usually to a 3rd party. For example: "This beer is crap", or "[Name] is a fool". This can be related directly to "Removing the Slag" from smelting metal, as in effect you're pointing out the faults/impurities of that person/object.
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