GULAG

PRONUNCIATION: (GOO-lahg)

MEANING: noun:
1. The system of forced labor camps in the former Soviet Union.
2. Any prison or forced labor camp, especially one for political prisoners.
3. A place of great hardship.

ETYMOLOGY: From Russian Gulag, acronym from Glavnoe Upravlenie ispravitel’no-trudovykh LAGerei (Chief Administration for Corrective Labor Camps). Earliest documented use: 1946.
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G. SLAG - seventh on a list of by-products of the production of iron from ore

GAUL A.G. - the Attorney General of ancient France

GUY-LAG - men can take a little longer to understand things sometimes