mag
noun
mag
1 American
[mag]
/ mæg /
noun
Informal.
mag
2
American
[mag]
/ mæg /
noun
-
a magpie.
-
talk; chatter.
verb (used without object)
magged,
magging
Mag
3
American
[mag]
/ mæg /
noun
mag.
4
American
abbreviation
-
magazine.
-
magnetism.
-
magneto.
-
magnitude.
-
(in prescriptions) large.
mag
1
British
/ mæɡ /
verb
noun
mag.
2
British
abbreviation
-
magazine
-
magnitude
mag
3
British
/ mæɡ /
noun
Etymology
Origin of mag1
Shortened form
Origin of mag2
Shortened form of magpie
Origin of mag.4
From the Latin word magnus
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Whether or not you care about infidelity and hosts’ personal lives, listeners to Huberman’s podcast should not sweep aside the contents of the New York mag story as mere gossip.
From Slate ● Mar. 27, 2024
Some people with exceptional eyesight can see objects fainter than mag 6.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 28, 2023
Nolan was like, “I’m going to step out — here, take this,” and put a mag of film in my lap.
From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2023
Or at least, according to US showbiz mag Variety, which claimed he was paid $25m for his final Bond outing in No Time to Die.
From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2023
I put down one mag and started on the next one.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
Plus, the Fed and Mag Seven dominate the week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
“The Mag Seven for years were the market darlings,” said Bret Kenwell, U.S. investment analyst at eToro.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
“Given the Mag 7 is funding much of the semiconductor demand, this divergence looks unsustainable,” the Ned Davis analysts wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
The Mag Seven remain huge companies that make “heaps of cash,” said Kimberly Forrest, chief investment officer at Bokeh Capital Partners.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
She asked me if I was happy at Lake Mag.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
“Nice story about JE in NY mag. You look great on the picture.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
Enemata, composed of mag. sulphas and warm water, were frequently thrown into the intestines; as soon as one came away another was thrown up.
From The Dog by William Youatt
I can take off the mag. and see if anything's wrong there; but I'm pretty sure there ain't.
From Cabin Fever by B. M. Bower
Willis made another reference to the two sisters in his "Earnest Clay" where he speaks of "two abominable old maids by the names of Buggins and Blidgins, representing the scan. mag. of Florence."
From As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century by Marian Gouverneur
Go in and win, say I. I’m sending with this an English mag. or two, with interviews in to show you the style of thing they need.
From In the Mist of the Mountains by J. Macfarlane
Worn, fretted, and stretched rope, as a magged brace.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
Beef Tea She never magged; she never said no word; But sat an' looked at me an' never stirred.
From The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke by C. J. (Clarence James) Dennis
And I suppose I'd been magging so hard all yesterday about myself that I hadn't given the girl a chance to put her life history across me!
From The Disturbing Charm by Berta Ruck
But I'm bound the members as silenced us, in doing it had plenty of magging.
From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Thomas Hood
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