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Definition of 'veg'English
Etymology 1
Shortened form of various related words including vegetable, vegetarian, and vegetate.
Adjective
( -)
vegetarian
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- The food's lip-smackingly good with some veg options, and there's a ham and eggs breakfast for 3KM.
Noun
( en-noun)
(colloquial) vegetable.
* 2002 , Tom Grahn, "Food compositions and methods of preparing the same", US Patent 6814975 [http://www.google.com/patents?id=spsQAAAAEBAJ], page 5,
- Secondary foodstuffs are exemplified by the following prepared dishes: vegetarian steaks, gratinated vegs , oven made lasagne, fish and ham with potatoes,
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- meals of meat and three veg were mostly the same three veg , beans peas potatoes, or peas carrots potatoes.
Usage notes
* In colloquial speech this is usually pluralized simply as "veg."
* In writing this may or may not be followed by a period to mark it as an abbreviation.
Synonyms
* veggie
Derived terms
* meat and two veg
Verb
( en-verb)
(colloquial) to vegetate; to engage in complete inactivity; to rest
- After working hard all week, I decided to stay home and veg on Saturday.
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- And he just sits and vegges on the TV, munches nachos, whatever.
Related terms
* veg out
Etymology 2
Coined in a 1948 paper in the American Journal of Psychology by Robert S. Harper and S. S. Stevens. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9556(195304)66%3A2%3C304%3AANCTVS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Y
Noun
( en-noun)
(psychology) A unit of subjective weight, equivalent to the perceived weight of lifting 100 grams.
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