meg
1 Americannoun
noun
abbreviation
noun
Etymology
Origin of meg
First recorded in 1980–85; by shortening
Example Sentences
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“Molly has been searching for a meg because she knows how big they can be, and also how rare they are,” her mother, Alicia Sampson, said in an email to The Washington Post.
From Washington Post • Jan. 11, 2023
Perhaps the only thing that can compete with a T. rex is a Carcharocles megalodon, the ancient and extinct shark known as the megalodon, or the meg.
From Washington Post • Jun. 5, 2019
We are setting up an ID photo station for our community and the webcams, even the good ones, don’t even get to 1 meg.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 30, 2018
The White House occasionally sends out for green and white agnolotti and nut meg sauce.
From Time Magazine Archive
Smell Factor had one of those birds now, one of the ones that didn’t fly or sing, the metal ones, so I could tell they were meg yesterday.
From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson
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