▪ I. meg2 slang and dial.
(mɛg)
[Of obscure origin. Cf. mag n.3 and make n.3]
† 1. A guinea. Obs.
| 1688 Shadwell Sqr. Alsatia i. i, Sham. No, no; Meggs are Guineas, Smelts are half-guineas. 1691 Islington Wells 12 To see a Town not far from Dover, Butter'd with Megs and Smelts all over. c 1742 in Hone Every-day Bk. II. 527 Tickets to be had, for three Megs a Carcass. |
2. A half-penny: = mag n.3, make n.3
| 1781 [see mag n.3]. 1872 in Hartley Yorks. Ditties (ed. 2) 90 He wodn't pay a meg. |
▪ II. meg, n.4 slang.
(mɛg)
[Abbrev.]
= megaphone n. Now rare.
| 1937 'C. McCabe' Face on Cutting-Room Floor vii. 53 Vic took the meg and shouted something at the camera people. 1942 Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §75/1 Meg, megger, a megaphone. 1961 in Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 1181/2. |
▪ III. meg, n.5 Electronics colloq.
(mɛg)
[Abbrev.]
= megohm s.v. mega- b.
| 1975 Physics Bull. Oct. 460/1 (Advt.), It measures voltages to 1200 volts, currents to 2 amps. and resistances to 2000 megs. 1982 Giant Bk. Electronics Projects x. 463 Each player control consists of a 1 meg pot and .1 microfarad capacitor. |
▪ IV. meg, n.6 Computing colloq.
(mɛg)
[Abbrev.]
= megabyte s.v. mega- b.
| 1983 Electronic News 4 Apr. 1, A 3081K with 48 megs of real storage..can achieve an additional throughput improvement of 10 per cent. 1987 Byte Dec. 133/2 The card holds 2 megs when fully populated. 1992 Tucson Weekly 23–29 Sept. 3/2, I type on a 386PC with 80-meg hard drive, 5 megs of RAM, color VGA monitor,..and much more. |