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plural segs
(archaic) A man; warrior; hero.
(UK dialectal) A man; fellow. examples
(UK, Scotland, dialect, obsolete) A castrated farm animal.
uncountable
(US prison slang) Segregation quotations
[…] when a prisoner is transferred or paroled or sent to "seg" (segregation) or hauled back into court, they don't ask if he's busy with a lead role in a play.
1988 July 15, Albert Williams, “Prison Drama”, in Chicago Reader
not comparable
Designated for people of color examples
A metal stud or plate fixed to the sole or heel of a shoe to prevent excessive wear. examples
(dialect) A callus, an area of hardened skin. examples
Sedge examples
Gladen, or other species of Iris quotations examples
In one district of Stronsa, I observed several acres covered with the common yellow flag, or seg (iris pseudacorus,) of which a very coarse kind of hay is here made.
1805 January, “Observations made in a Tour through parts of Orkney and Shetland in 1894”, in The Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany, volume 67, number 1, page 26
It's also believed that anyone who bites a seg will develop an impediment of speech, such as a stammer.
2019, Roy Vickery, Vickery's Folk Flora, page lxxiii
Boats were made of wood, paper or segs (the leaves of the yellow flag). For some reason, children in Stenness (O) were warned that if they chewed seg leaves they would become dumb.
2020, Ernest Marwick, The Folklore of Orkney and Shetland
(broadcasting) Clipping of segment. quotations examples
The usual partisanship for bankrollers of radio segs is shown on TV stations.
1951 December 15, Billboard, page 6