veg

Etymology 1

Clipping of various related words including vegetable, vegetarian, and vegetate.

adj

1. Vegetarian.
   The food's lip-smackingly good with some veg options, and there's a ham and eggs breakfast for 3KM. 2007, Tom Masters, Eastern Europe, Lonely Planet, page 120

noun

1. (colloquial) vegetable(s).
   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, […]
   […] meals of meat and three veg were mostly the same three veg, beans peas potatoes, or peas carrots potatoes. 2004, Marion Halligan, The Taste of Memory, page 185
   Ok, Question 40. Do you get your five fruit and veg? Ohh, I mean I certainly try to... I would say, I would say I probably do. A day. A WHAT??! 2007 August 31', Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 2
   fruit and veg ― fruit and vegetables
2. (chiefly India) vegetarian food.

verb

1. (colloquial) to vegetate; to engage in complete inactivity; to rest
   After working hard all week, I decided to stay home and veg on Saturday.
   And he just sits and vegges on the TV, munches nachos, whatever. 2002, Jonathan Kellerman, Flesh and Blood, page 7

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(194807)61%3A3%3C343%3AAPSOWA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-D, http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9556(195304)66%3A2%3C304%3AANCTVS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Y

noun

1. (psychology) A unit of subjective weight, equivalent to the perceived weight of lifting 100 grams.