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noun
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mag
1 American
[mag]
/ mæg /
noun
Informal.
mag
2
American
[mag]
/ mæg /
noun
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a magpie.
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talk; chatter.
verb (used without object)
magged,
magging
Mag
3
American
[mag]
/ mæg /
noun
mag.
4
American
abbreviation
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magazine.
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magnetism.
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magneto.
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magnitude.
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(in prescriptions) large.
mag
1
British
/ mæɡ /
verb
noun
mag.
2
British
abbreviation
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magazine
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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
Not just Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer in this month's glossy mag, or news that "discreet chic" is back and flamboyant "statement gowns" are out!
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2024
So I did what I said not to do!” she told the mag, explaining that she broke her own rule “because he’s just so special.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2023
Some people with exceptional eyesight can see objects fainter than mag 6.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 28, 2023
When it’s my turn to talk about my day, I share lit mag news.
From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King
Outside of Nvidia and Apple, capital returns aren’t large at any of the Mag Seven stocks.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
Individual investors have bought a net $52 million of Microsoft shares in July so far, Vanda’s data show, making it the most popular Mag Seven member.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
“When you were looking for growth, you wanted to be in the Mag Seven,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
What’s more, if the Mag 7 can roll back the years and start having a positive impact on the Dow, it could even reach 53,000 before the World Cup is over.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
My new caseworker, Dixie Elmer, talked up the new place as though it were a magical kingdom, but it sounded more like Lake Mag than Disney World.
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
I tackled Phillis about it, and she said the mag. was meant to be serious, not comic.
From The Girls of St. Cyprian's A Tale of School Life by Angela Brazil
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
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
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
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
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
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