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Slag is a slang term, primarily used in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland and Australia, to describe women who 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, and has been backronymed to mean "She'll Lay Any Guy"^{[citation needed]}, referring to promiscuous behaviour. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... Casual sex refers to sexual activity outside the context of a romantic relationship, consisting of a range of informal sexual encounters. ... Promiscuous redirects here. ... Look up slut in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see Skank (disambiguation). ... Slag is also an early play by David Hare. ... A backronym (or bacronym) is a phrase that is constructed after the fact from a previously existing abbreviation, the abbreviation being an initialism or an acronym. ...

Other words for slag include; slut, shaylee, whore, prostitute, shaleigh or scrubber. In Australia, the world "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. Look up slut in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Whore redirects here. ... Prostitution is the sale of sexual services (typically manual stimulation, oral sex, sexual intercourse, or anal sex) for cash or other kind of return, generally indiscriminately with many persons. ... The word scrubber can mean:- The part of a rebreather breathing set which absorbs the carbon dioxide which the individual using the breathing set breathes out. ...

It achieved prominence when it was used as the title for 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. Sandra Burke & Tracey Tunstall - The Fat Slags The Fat Slags is a comic strip appearing in alternative British comic Viz. ... Cover of Viz (issue 57) Viz is a popular British adult comic magazine that has been running since 1979. ... This article is about the television series. ...

Nowadays, increasing usage finds the word used in the 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 and the United Kingdom. To 'slag someone off', is to insult them, not necessarily in a serious way. Gender in common usage refers to the sexual distinction between male and female. ...

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. Slag is also an early play by David Hare. ...

See also

• The Fat Slags