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scal·a·wag (skăl'ə-wăg') also scal·ly·wag (skăl'ē-)
n.
  1. Informal. A reprobate; a rascal.
  2. A white Southerner working for or supporting the federal government during Reconstruction.

[Origin unknown.]


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