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marg

1 American  
[mahrg] / mɑrg /

noun

  • margs
    plural
  1. an informal variant form of margarita, the cocktail drink.


marg. 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. margin.

  2. marginal.


marg British  
/ mɑːdʒ /

noun

  1. informal short for margarine

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of marg

First recorded in 1995–2000; by shortening

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The best way to make a spicy marg mind its manners will depend on just how much of a hothead you are.

From Washington Post Apr. 20, 2023

The spicy marg is a drink that, done well, is everything I want in warmer weather.

From Washington Post Apr. 20, 2023

This is what I always say: She’s at the taqueria, she’s having a marg, and all of a sudden, this guy comes over and he’s like, “I have a cure for cancer.”

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 21, 2022

Marg, margarita; mocktail, non-alcoholic mixed drink; flight, a sampler of small drinks: A marg that’s made with mango?

From Washington Post Oct. 4, 2018

So they tramped on wearily until just below them they saw a marg or mountain upland, where some goats were grazing.

From The Adventures of Akbar by Byam Shaw

In marg. in another hand.487.And he gloried in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, in Whom is his salvation, life, and resurrection, by Whom he is saved and delivered.488.Dinner.

From The Condition of Catholics Under James I. by John Gerard

In marg. in another hand.313.If he lived so many days, he should have carried from that place and examined, etc.

From The Condition of Catholics Under James I. by John Gerard

In marg. in yet another hand.314.And got to some friends' houses, where they lived safe for a month or more, but afterwards were discovered and taken.

From The Condition of Catholics Under James I. by John Gerard

Among the handful of truly standout margs I've had, one peculiar version looms large.

From Salon Nov. 3, 2021

There have been many picnics lately, the little glades or margs, which are frequent in the forest slopes, being ideal places of rendezvous for merrymakers on horse or foot.

From A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil by T. R. Swinburne

No empty sardine-tins, nor untidy scraps of paper, mar the clean and lonely margs or village camping-grounds.

From A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil by T. R. Swinburne

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